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...more. "Dictatorship . . . involves costs which the American people will never pay . . . spiritual values. . . . The blessed right of being able to say what we please . . . freedom of religion . . . seeing our capital confiscated . . . being cast into a concentration camp. The cost of being afraid to walk down the street with the wrong neighbor . . . of having our children brought up . . . as pawns molded and enslaved by a machine...
...Year's Day 1929, a confused young man named Roy Riegels picked up a fumbled football, ran 75 yards with it-in the wrong direction. Some 70,000 pairs of eyes saw him do it, and millions of ears at radios heard that Roy Riegels, captain-elect of the University of California football team, had presented the Rose Bowl game to Georgia Tech...
...coach at a California high school, spectators heckled him from the stands: "Why don't you teach them to run the right way?'' When introduced to strangers, he was invariably greeted with the same exclamation: "Oh, you're the guy who ran the wrong...
...Bowl game came around, sportswriters reminded their readers of his monumental blunder. Even last fall, when Oakland féted Transcontinental Flyer Douglas Corrigan, the local entertainment committee dragged Roy Riegels from the asparagus farm where he had retired to avoid people, to shake hands publicly with the new Wrong-Way Champion...
Last week, on the tenth anniversary of his wrong-way run, Roy Riegels' wife filed suit for divorce. Reason: moroseness...