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Also enjoying a strong showing was sophomore Cricket Sheppard-Sawyer, who finished fourth overall with a time...
...midnight, 16,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions dropped chaotically into the dark coastal countryside to protect the western flank of the incoming army against counterattacks. Lost in low clouds, many of the planes missed their drop sites by miles, but the scattered paratroopers, snapping cricket noisemakers to find each other, gradually regrouped and moved toward the beach. An additional 8,000 men from the British 6th Airborne jumped in to guard the eastern flank, catching the Germans guarding key bridges by complete surprise...
...frenetic atmosphere, however, a phenomenon of rebellion, of hope, has sprung up. Students are slaying the proverbial dragon of "Thou Shalt" and regretlessly pencilling in what is increasingly being called "sun time," time spent doing the non-constructive--sun bathing, playing frisbee, baseball--or even, for the more Anglophilic, cricket, in one of the more beautiful springs in recent memory...
Then again, I don't understand cricket, the world's dullest sport, but millions of Englishmen love it. And of course, I'm definitely not here to criticize...
...court, Redstone wears nondescript suits and owns the same three- bedroom home in Newton, Massachusetts, that he and his wife Phyllis paid $42,000 for 35 years ago. He favors the less fancy Pine Brook Country Club in nearby Weston over the prestigious Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline. He spends weekdays in Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel to be near Viacom headquarters. Often rising at 5 a.m., he reads the morning papers and then works out on a treadmill while watching TV. His days last up to 18 hours. "I live modestly," Redstone says. "Possessions don't count. Achievement counts. Winning...