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Three French tourists had just driven into a camping site in a Skoplje park. As they got out of their car they saw the surrounding houses crumble. Bricks shot through the air as if fired from cannon-one struck a running man in the head and killed him. Dazed survivors in pajamas wandered among the trees. A man babbled, "I thought it was the hydrogen bomb." Only one wall of the main post office remained standing. A five-story building shrank in size as the earth swallowed up the two lower floors. People groped through the ruins calling for members...
What's wrong? Every baseball mogul has a theory. In Houston, there are the helicopter-sized mosquitoes that infest the ballpark. Washington's Joseph Burke picks on TV: "If the team is losing, people naturally stay home and watch the tube." Judge Robert Cannon, counsel for the Major League Players' Association, says it's all the fault of the baseball fan's economy. "Unemployment is high and money is scarce," says Cannon. "The guy with the big family can't afford to take his kids to the ball game as often as he once...
...sturdy (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.) lefthander, Koufax has a baffling overhand motion and a bewildering arsenal of pitches. His fastball comes in like a 20-mm. cannon shell; his curve breaks so sharply that it acts, says Dodger Catcher John Roseboro, "like a chair whose legs suddenly collapse." Control? "When an umpire calls my pitch a ball," says Koufax casually, "that means it is either high or low. It's never outside or inside." All in all, agrees St. Louis Cardinals' Slugger Ken Boyer, "Koufax is just too damned much...
...CANNON Peace Corps Volunteer Mlanje, Nyasaland
Soon NBC was bringing off stunts that the Kremlin would not quickly forget. They fired a cannon to re-create the moment when the charred remains of the Pretender Dmitry were muzzle-loaded and blasted back toward Poland. With smoke pots and magnesium flares, they simulated the burning of the Kremlin by Napoleon. Though Moscow's fire department had been warned, ten or twelve noisy fire trucks came rushing to the scene anyway...