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...Castro to autograph a picture from an earlier session, the President's arm was so sore from holding Stevenson's hand aloft in a victory salute that he could barely write. The arm was not too sore, however, to offer Leifer a light for his Cohiba Cuban cigar in the souvenir photo above...
...erupted. Mondale and his aides cheered, shook hands and, in a strange gesture for that controlled group, slapped palms in the high-five manner of basketball players celebrating a slam dunk. Mondale a few minutes later strolled out onto the patio, lit a cigar and savored the moment alone. His younger son William, 22, joined him; they talked about, of all things, mosquitoes, which are plaguing North Oaks this summer...
Castro, in olive-drab fatigues and puffing on a cigar, greeted Jackson with a warm handshake, but not the traditional abrazo, at Havana's Jose Marti Airport. "He said he wanted to embrace me," Jackson explained later. "But it was a kind of historic moment, and both of us wanted to deal with substance and not get sidetracked by symbolism...
...crowds chanted, "Jesse! Jesse!", Jack son chatted amiably at the airport with Castro. The Cuban gave Jackson a cigar, which the minister, who does not smoke, tried to puff from the wrong end. Castro said that he was releasing the prisoners "as a gesture to Jackson and to the American people...
After the four games, all of which they should have lost, Boston's players brought out an old Celtic device as smelly as Red Auerbach's cigar and Boston Garden. They locked themselves in their room, damned the league, condemned the media, agreed that the commissioner, the referees and everyone else in the world were against them, and swore to get even with the lot. Topping off his farewell performance as general manager, Auerbach, 66, even rumbled about the abuse his team was taking on CBS, which was slightly preposterous, since TV Color Man Tommy Heinsohn participated...