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...Jordan's capital of Amman. The opponents: a championship Jordanian team made up of Arab refugees from Palestine, the Zerka Zupermen. Macomber's Bombers frittered away an early lead, lost to the Zupermen 20-14. After the game, Ambassador Macomber, 41, in sneakers, shorts and a sweat-stained red jersey, received the victors at an embassy reception, where he served jelly buns, chocolate cake and soda...
...Sweat & Lust. "We, as human beings, are all miserable persons, heartless, small, insignificant," wrote Kazantzakis in his personal credo, The Saviors of God. "But within us a superior essence drives us ruthlessly upward. From within this human mire divine songs have welled up, great ideas, violent loves, an unsleeping assault full of mystery...
...ease the lot of the Pulitzer juries, the entrants rarely hide behind false modesty. "It is impossible to estimate the proverbial blood, sweat and tears which went into this undertaking," said the Scranton Tribune in 1959, submitting the work of Tribune Reporter J. Harold Brislin, whose stories helped send ten union leaders to jail. "The most remarkable mission in postwar journalistic history," read the blurb on the 1956 entry of the Hearst Task Force which had gone to Russia and interviewed Khrushchev and missed the big story of the year, the downfall of Premier Georgy Malenkov. The Pulitzer Advisory Board...
...Hills. But civilization, of a sort, has reached the mountains. TV has penetrated into many Appalachian shacks that have little other furniture. It has brought with it a glimpse of jobs, salaries and luxuries that the mountaineers never dreamed of. Dressed in their mountain "uniform"-tight blue jeans, white sweat socks and open-necked shirts for the men, simple print dresses for the women-they have turned to the cities for a new life...
There was frank animal hatred in the obsidian eyes. The harried champion felt it. He shuddered involuntarily and looked away. On his chest, rivulets of sweat sparkled in the harsh glare of naked lights. Patiently, coldly, the massive-shouldered challenger stalked his prey, drawing his circles tighter and tighter, until the champion was trapped against the ropes. A thudding left to the belly doubled up the champion. Another left to the head made him drop his gloves. The challenger swung his right...