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...death as in life, Sukarno was a problem. As Indonesia's deposed President last week succumbed at 69 after a long bout with kidney stones and high blood pressure, Djakarta's new leaders pondered the questions of how much to mourn him and how much to memorialize him. Indeed, many Indonesians were in a quandary over their bapak (father). Some felt that they should pay homage to him as the founding father who proclaimed Indonesia's independence in 1945 and spawned a sense of national identity. Others were prepared to damn him as the profligate...
...asphalt. Finally, he turned to face Ward. "It just doesn't matter, now," he said softly. "We're going to be way back in the pack anyway. Our luck just seems to be bad here. You know, Ward," he said in a very tired drawl. "I'm bout as old as you are, and that's pretty old. I jes don't know how long I can keep going." Ward made a half-hearted attempt at a recovery, and then smiled a PR man smile until the engineer n the booth mercifully switched back to Jim McKay. The next...
Canada's Donato Paduano, the ninth-ranked welterweight, was more realistic about his ten-round bout with Marcel Jr. "I am fighting the son, not the father." That was immediately apparent at the opening bell. Slighter and speedier than his father, Marcel Jr. showed himself to be a crisp, stylish counterpuncher. Busily bobbing under Paduano's strong jabs, he repeatedly beat the Canadian to the punch in the early rounds. Paduano and the crowd of 10,767 soon realized, though, that the son had none of the raw, put-away power of the father. Though slowed...
...yeah? Whatta ya gonna do "bout it?" Flex asked. They started back up, but this time it was Agnes who said to cool it. Up in Straus they almost laid their hands on some prepies, but the guys slipped...
...make that callow and ridiculous statement that you have the audacity to put between quotation marks. " 'Now if I were Norman Mailer,' said the author of Portnoy's Complaint, 'I'd be up in the ring after the first bout, kicking away at the boxers in golf shoes.' " Whatever tin-eared fantast fed you that one should at least have told you to include in your story the fact that in Thailand the boxers fight principally with theii feet. As it stands, the quotation is not only predictably without any relation to fact...