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...coal train that is so heavy it must stick to the main line; at same time an eastward freight sweeps by on the descending grade. After Victorville it is a climb of 1,106 ft. in 19 miles to the summit of Cajon Pass, eerily shrouded in fog. We crawl along, watching for signals looming out of murk, then creep down the steep slope, air brakes hissing, to San Bernardino. Suddenly all is neon lights, freeways, gas stations and palm trees...
...playground for them, and a model for other institutions like theirs, has been built with funds provided by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The 120-ft. by 40-ft. area contains an artificial waterfall under which the youngsters can walk or ride, a grassy knoll up which they can crawl, and a periscope through which they can peer over the fence. Shallow pools are set waist high so that wheelchair patients can bathe their dolls or sail their boats, and a huge foam-rubber mattress cushions a play pit for the more disabled. To give the children the experience...
...Klein's austere logic that it is better to spare them as much final pain as possible: "Nothing disturbed Commandant Klein as much as the dread that they might die screaming." It is also Klein's fancy to have Adam act like a pet dog, making him crawl around his parlor on all fours and compete with his teeth for bones tossed to Klein...
...eyes are "hypnotic whirlpools of flake gold" and his "perfect features display a power of character seldom seen." Best of all, Doc is really built. His "giant" body, "kilned by tropical suns and arctic winds" to a permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman." He can dodge a bullet, crawl up a wall like a human fly, stay under water for eight minutes, smash through an inch-thick steel door with one punch, and take on-oh, say-a hundred armed men at a time and flip them about like Frisbees with his bare hands...
...games seemed to crawl. Before the final, Costello summed up the play by saying: "It's strange. We've beaten them three times and haven't played a good game yet." The final was so one-sided that it looked like the varsity scrimmaging the jayvees. The results of the key match-ups-Robertson v. Monroe, Alcindor v. Unseld-told the story. In the series, the Big O outscored the Pearl 94 to 65, while Lew topped Wes 108 to 60. Forward Jack Marin, the Bullets' highest scorer in the series, said of Alcindor: "Every time...