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Sixteen Tufts batters strode to the plate in the fateful second inning of yesterday's-baseball game. Five of them walked. Two reached base on errors. An additional half dozen singled, and three, of course, made outs...
...green uniform gleaming with nine rows of ribbons on his chest and four silver stars on each epaulet, General Wojciech Jaruzelski strode to the rostrum of Warsaw's parliamentary chamber and formally took over as Poland's new Premier. In the clipped tones of a military commander, he addressed both a plea and a stern warning to the troubled nation. "I am appealing at this moment for three months of uninterrupted work, 90 days of calm," said the general. He went on to promise that his new government would be willing to sit down with Solidarity, the independent...
...podium was a huge tiered platform for the instruments of Reagan's true audience: millions of television viewers. As the Marine Corps Band played stirring renditions of Yankee Doodle and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, official guests in solemn procession arrived to take their positions. The Senate strode in with Leader Howard Baker in front, carrying his omnipresent 35-mm camera. Then came Vice President-elect Bush, President Carter, Vice President Mondale and the Justices of the Supreme Court. Finally, to the strains of the U.S. Army's Herald Trumpets playing Jubilant, Reagan arrived on the podium...
Under a wintry Italian sky, a gray-suited and solemn Lech Walesa, his wife Miroslawa and a 13-member delegation from Solidarity strode across the Vatican's stone-paved Court of San Damaso to the Apostolic Palace. For the occasion, the Swiss Guards had donned their red-plumed metal helmets, an honor usually reserved for visiting heads of state. The helmets attested to the special significance that the Vatican attached to last week's meeting between the leader of Solidarity and his Pope and countryman, John Paul II, formerly Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Cracow...
...Without warning, two well-dressed men stepped into the nearly deserted restaurant, pulled out automatic pistols and sprayed the three diners with 9-mm and .45-cal. gunfire, hitting them in the chests and heads. Moments later, they tucked their pistols into the waistbands of their trousers and calmly strode through the crowded hotel lobby and out into the warm night...