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This year's freshman crop has more than its share of 160-1b, guards. And there isn't the usual stack of press raves about the 5'11" scatbacks who tore up their league with broken-field acrobatics...
...other biographers should overlook them, MacArthur retells with zest the high points of his youthful heroics. On his first assignment in the Philippines, he reports that he was waylaid on a narrow jungle trail by a pair of desperadoes; he dropped them both with his pistol, while a slug tore through his campaign hat. When the Marines were occupying Vera Cruz in 1913, MacArthur went on an unauthorized reconnaissance aboard a railway handcar. Shooting his way out of a series of ambushes, he arrived back in Vera Cruz with four bullet holes in his shirt, but unscathed. As a brigadier...
...minority Liberal government proposed the flag than it was under violent attack-chiefly by the opposition Conservative Party headed by ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, whose strategy apparently is to make it impossible for Pearson to govern. Diefenbaker set out to filibuster the flag to death. The Conservatives tore into the new flag as an insult to the "mother country," tagged it "Pearson's pennant," compared it to "the posterior of a bikini," a blanket for a race horse, a trademark for soap flakes...
Unfinished Business. In the grandstand, mutuel clerks watched incredulously while bettors tore up losing tickets on Gun Bow and hugged each other with delight. Allaire du Pont dashed around the winner's circle, kissing everybody in reach. And what was Kelso doing? Trotting calmly off to the barn to catch up on his sleep. After all, there was still some unfinished business to attend to-a small matter of $38,737. With $1,711,132 already in the bank (including his day's pay of $70,005), that was all that stood between the sturdy old champion...
...Okinawa. Sixty-four men were in Platoon Sergeant Bauer's landing group on Okinawa; six got out alive. Hank himself was wounded again. "I saw this reflection of sunshine on something coming down. It was an artillery shell, and it hit right behind me." A piece of shrapnel tore a jagged hole in Bauer's left thigh. His part of the war was over -after 32 months of combat, eleven campaign ribbons, two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts...