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Hayes, one of those solid finishers who always manage to come through in the clutch, may let the faster sprinters set the pace before moving up in the last 50 yards. He went to the Easterns last year as the favorite, but could not compete because of a high fever and strept throat...
...forerunners, The Ipcress File and the bestselling Funeral in Berlin, this one winds along a serpentine of intrigue that defies both credibility and comprehension. It involves an anonymous secret agent, a fetching and murderous Finnish girl, a linear computer that can call people on the telephone, and a clutch of hen's eggs inoculated with a deadly virus...
...Wall to freedom. It being a warm summer night, the cocky pair tanked up on beer before setting out. The celebration was premature: before they had driven a single block, a pair of East German S.S.D. (State Security) cars squealed to a halt in front of them, and a clutch of cops jumped out. Beery protestations proved unavailing. Trochim drew a two-year sentence in the Bautzen II Labor Camp, Zippel got 20 months at Buetzow Prison, known to its inmates as "the Red Hell...
...ceremonial motorcade through the city Popes, too, can tire: unerringly, cameras zoomed in to catch the lines of fatigue that etched his lean, ascetic face. And no more for the Pope than for other men will blustery winds die down at will. Time and again the Pope had to clutch desperately at his white zucchetto (skullcap) to keep it from sailing off into the air. During his farewell speech at Kennedy Airport, a stray gust whipped Paul's cloak over his head and face-and for an incongruous, hilarious split second, the spiritual leader of 584 million Roman Catholics...
...crowd, and out flew a sparrow. Such antics made it easy to forget the fact that his lifetime batting average over a dozen big-league seasons was a solid .284, and that he outhit Babe Ruth in the 1923 World Series-batting .417 and winning two games singlehanded with clutch home runs...