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...which bears its name, McNamara and Khanh set off on foot for the shrine which once was home of the Hoa Hao sect's late founder. Standing in its silk-bedecked interior, McNamara placed both hands before his chest in the Bud dhist attitude of prayer and bowed. Afterward, the visitors stood beaming as Khanh presented a U.S.-made hearing aid to the founder's mother, a partly deaf octogenarian who still lives on the place; the old woman seemed baffled but appreciative...
Actually, as District Attorney Henry Wade explained afterward, the real expert witness in the Ruby trial was not a specialist but a policeman. The prosecution clinched its case by showing premeditated intent: Ruby, so the officer testified, had said: "I hope I killed the son of a bitch! I intended to shoot him three times...
Even the priest becomes infected by Joan's passion--and it turns him into a horrifying criminal. Similarly the Polish man of action, corrupted to the point of insanity by the moral sickness of communism, chops his country to pieces. Afterward he can, like the priest, only shrug and murmur "I did it for your good...
...Lyndon started things with a real blast. In a chilling rain at Palatka, he touched off a 150-lb. dynamite charge to break ground for the 107-mile, $158 million Cross-Florida Barge Canal. Afterward, he stopped off in Palm Beach for a 20-minute visit with Joseph P. Kennedy, ailing father of the late President. Then he headed for Miami Beach...
...Rabbits. "I had no idea of going for the record," O'Hara admitted afterward-and hardly anybody in Madison Square Garden suspected what was about to happen when he toed the start. Assaults on the mile record are fashioned like Marine landings: every step is plotted in advance and rehearsed for days, even weeks. Many are out-and-out team efforts, in which two or three fleet-footed (temporarily) "rabbits" are used to ensure a fast pace for the star. But O'Hara is a one-man team, and the N.Y.A.C. field was so-so at best. Nobody...