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...thick traffic of the working-class suburb of Catia, the caravan slowed to a crawl, then halted. Several hundred rioters came running. They ripped the U.S. and Venezuelan flags from Nixon's car, pounded the doors with clubs, pipes, brass artillery-shell cases. Grapefruit-sized stones smashed against the safety glass until slivers began flying through the inside of the car. A shower of glass struck Nixon, one piece lodging in his temple near his right eye (it was easily removed...
...shall also, eventually, have a go at the Royal Cemetery nearby which has sixty to one hundred mounds in it. Some of these have been looted, of course, and one finds tunnels made by grave-robbers. I tried to crawl into the biggest one myself; it had been filled nearly to the top already and more earth came down, so I had to stop. It is quite tantalizing, however, since you can see a great distance into the tuunel...
Lieser protested to the state government of Baden-Württemberg. Nothing happened. When he pressed his case, officials, hoping to hush up the matter, tried to arrange a reconciliation between Lieser and Zind. But instead of apologizing, Zind snapped: "I would rather clean the streets than crawl...
...makes possible Ralph Bellamy's extraordinarily effective portrayal, one which achieves not bits of personality but the sense of a person, not a pronouncing of words but a manner of speech. In Bellamy's coping with stretchers, wheelchairs, crutches and braces, in his making himself learn to crawl, in his making something heroic of what is humiliating, there is no trace of tear-jerking vaudevillism or performing virtuosity; there is always a sense of characterization and of character. It is a notable performance, culminating in the advance on crutches to the Convention rostrum-the re-entry into public...
Sastrugi. Doggedly sticking to its scientific schedule, but far behind its timetable, the Fuchs expedition crawled up the domed icecap from South Ice. It painfully threaded through a line of nunataks (mountain peaks almost submerged in ice), and reached ice with fewer crevasses on the high plateau behind. Here were great fields of sastrugi-wind-formed ridges of hard-packed snow sometimes 4 ft. high. The Sno-Cats crossed them all right, but with dangerous pitching and crashing. Progress slowed to a crawl; the weather grew worse; but the scientists kept to their schedule as if they were making their...