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With five minutes remaining in the first half, Chinaglia saw Francois Van der Elst in front of the goal. He faked and tapped the ball to Van der Elst, who whirled and slammed a second goal past Brand. Chinaglia's assist tied him for the league scoring lead...
...neat play but Van der Elst leaped high in the air. Chinalgia smiled. The Sounders shook their heads and clenched their fists...
Besides providing smoke cover for the troops, the low-flying Starfighters were deliberately used to make the hostages seek cover on the floor-the safest place for them during a gun battle. Authorities theorized that both victims #151;a 40-year-old man from Elst and an Indonesian girl from Groningen who spent her 20th birthday on the train -were shot when they stood up. But so effective were the terrifying roars of the jetcraft that the great majority of the prisoners instinctively dove for the ground. Summed up Air Force Major W.A. Blaauw: "It was a nice operation...
...Scholar Gustav Glük pointed to the glutton seated halfway down the table with the spoon in his mouth, perhaps because he is the only man looking straight out of the canvas. But his unimportant position at the festive board seems to rule him out. Baron van der Elst (The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages) decided that the groom just wasn't there. He backed up his opinion with an old Flemish proverb: " 'It's a poor man who is not able to eat at his own wedding.' That seems to be the case...
...anticipation of the hostile reception she got at Manchester last week, Mrs. Van der Elst fortnight ago told a New York Herald Tribune correspondent that she was about to transfer her humane campaign to the U. S. "England," said she, "is too tough a proposition at present. . . I thought my husband would have suffered so, seeing me get arrested and fined, but the other night he appeared at a seance in the form of a beautiful luminous cross . . . and hovered directly over my head. It's a great comfort...