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...long way from the football field and his days as star quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants, but there was Y. A. Tittle, 41, agile as ever, weaving through the crush at suburban San Francisco's Palo Alto Hills Country Club. Wearing white tie and tails as proudly as he once wore helmet and shoulder pads, Y.A., now an insurance executive, waltzed his 18-year-old daughter Dianne through the first dance at her debut into Peninsula society...
Pressed Flesh. The most dangerous crush occurred at the national cathedral, Paul's first stop after the airport. Some of the faithful had waited all night in the Plaza de Bolivar fronting on the cathedral. When Paul arrived, the surge of the mob was so forceful that women lost their shoes, 300 persons fainted or were pressed breathless, and even the Pope himself was jostled. Escorted into the cathedral by a phalanx of police, Paul was greeted by 5,000 priests, nuns, novices and seminary students who jammed every niche of the basilica, elbowing and shoving for a better...
...tragedy that has been gathering force the past 14 months in Nigeria?once Africa's brightest hope for successful nationhood. One of the opposing forces, wielding a full array of modern weapons from Britain, Russia and much of Europe, is the federal government of Nigeria. It is determined to crush a rebellion that it feels will destroy its republic. On the other side, armed chiefly with determination, stands the secessionist state of Biafra, the home of Nigeria's Ibo tribe. The Ibos are convinced that they are fighting not only for independence but for their survival as a people...
...shoulders and render a version of Charlie's corny speech in which I would tell all those Reagan supporters a thing or two about the problems of this nation. But the spell was broken when Reagan himself drove up, smiling and waving, and worked his way through the crush to an elevator, which the Secret Service would not allow anyone else to enter...
...body -- including brain -- and non-body, between the gross private tyranny of the coarse machine Enderby must serve every minute of his life and the hard bright indifference of that panorama of people and places outside. Ranged against each other, equally complex, equally demanding masters, the two forces almost crush Enderby, who is too blind to differentiate between them. But Enderby withstands the buffets of circumstance and wins by doggedly avoiding every intrusion of reality. The author attempts to compensate for Enderby's isolationism by stressing his integrity--Enderby is loyal to the lord he has chosen, his own neurosis...