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...back to see the catcher's signs. Then, with the barest hint of a nod, Denny is ready to pitch. He squirts a stream of spittle out of his mouth, the left corner of his upper lip curls back in a sneer, his hands come slowly together at his chest. Suddenly he wheels to the right, rears back and throws. If it is a strike, McLain licks his teeth with obvious satisfaction. Back comes the ball from the catcher and, as if bored with the very sight of the batter, McLain turns away from the plate...
...state of exception" decree, police are staging nightly search raids at Basque homes throughout the province of Guipúzcoa, hauling off truckloads of suspects for detention. To pry out information about the underground terrorists, cops have resorted to torture. They have beaten some prisoners, forced others to stand chest-high for long periods in pools of ice water, ordered a few to bend to the floor and draw a circle around themselves until they passed out. Under another decree that swept the terrorists beyond the pale of civil justice, conspirators are liable to capital punishment for military rebellion...
...CHEST DISEASES...
Deepened Frustration. Four ranking cops were dismissed in a brutality incident last year, but all have been reinstated under the administration of Mayor Loeb. Such wrist-spanking discipline deepens Negro frustration. So does the chest-thumping of Fire and Police Director Frank Holloman, who recently promised an applauding white civic club that if Memphis' Negroes revert to "lawlessness," as he put it, "we'll knock them on their ass." There was further frustration when a bid by Negroes to prevent a sales-tax rise-partly to finance a 50-man increase in the police force-was defeated...
...life and how to make out with Raquel. When the gang is finally attacked by some bandoleros, Martin falls mortally wounded and gaspingly tells Raquel that if a girl like her could like a guy like him, then "there must be something good in me." Nursing a ventilated chest, Stewart staggers by to add that old Dino "always wanted the right things" but somehow "it was always hard for him to see the light at the end of the trail." And so, fans, ever true to the old Hollywood epitaph, they died with their boots in their mouths...