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...fist on the sands...
...Washington, he found 500 excited fans waiting at the rainswept airport. But as Barry began to speak, eight leather-lunged clods from George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party set up a howl. Goldwater's fans swarmed around the agitators from Rockwell's zoo and a fist fight broke out. Goldwater cried: "Let them go! It's really pitiful what young people can do in this country if they have nothing else to do-but it's their constitutional right...
...Coulet as administrative head of the region. Coulet promptly fired the incumbent Vichyite subprefect, whom the British had instructed to stay on the job, and replaced him with a Resistance fighter. It was a simple coup d'etat: when the infuriated British came to protest, Coulet banged his fist "on his new desk, shouting: "My presence here has nothing to do with you. I'm here on De Gaulle's orders." The British retreated...
...Communist painter free after he had served four years of an eight-year sentence for inspiring a 1960 leftist riot. But Siqueiros was anything but chastened. "My incarceration has .been but a parenthesis in my political and artistic life," said he, raising his right hand in the clenched-fist salute. And to prove it, he announced plans for the year: 1) complete a mural at Chapultepec castle, the national museum, portraying the Mexican Revolution; 2) complete another for the national theatrical artists' union, and 3) go to Havana to start work on a project dedicated to the Castro rebels...
Micrometer Precision. About as big as its owner's fist, the human kidney is a biochemical filter with incredibly delicate powers of discrimination. It is also a prodigious worker (see diagram, left). All the water that anyone consumes in food or drink must go into the blood and be extracted by the kidneys before it can be voided as urine-contrary to the beer drinker's cliche "It goes right through you." Kidneys also work fast: the malodorous sulphur compound in asparagus is extracted and begins to be excreted in a couple of hours...