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Landing only for more fuel and ammunition, the two sleepless lieutenants set off for the Marine base at Barber's Point. "We went down and got in the traffic pattern and shot down several planes there," said Taylor, who suffered a severe arm wound. "I know for certain I shot down two planes or perhaps more; I don't know." Official records credited the two of them with downing seven planes, almost one-quarter of all Japanese losses...
...sees as too lazy to go to work for themselves. "In America you get what you work for," says Sue Hee. "If you don't get it, then you didn't work for it." The rage that African Americans direct at Korean merchants, says Wayne Gibson, a black barber in Compton, stems from a feeling of exploitation and lack of respect. "It seems everybody's just trying to get over on the residents of Compton without giving anything back," he says. "That's where the hostility comes in. So the people out here resent these immigrants getting...
...Jack Buck bobbles too many easy chances. (Was it a strike or a checked swing? Watch the ump, not Jack.) Tim McCarver, his partner in the booth, knows his stuff but tends to babble. And ratings, for all but the final two games, were down once again. Somewhere Red Barber is weeping...
Bush himself has changed. It has been a long time since he blurted anything like "kicked a little ass" or had an on-camera goofy streak. The other day his barber, Milton Pitts, asked Bush if he'd heard any new jokes. "All the jokes have dried up," answered Bush. That's an exaggeration, but Pitts did notice a few more gray hairs, a few more wrinkles. The war Bush wages has taken a toll...
...House pharmacy dispensing free prescription drugs, not to mention the private congressional ambulance that protects members from the urban nightmare of emergency-room gridlock. When families who know how to squeeze a dollar until the eagle screams still cannot find the money for a haircut, the House barber takes on a special symbolic weight. When young families cannot get a mortgage on a house, the idea of free loans to lawmakers is bound to rankle...