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...this land of the free. Each time Lokar touched the ball in the Feb. 2 game against St. John's University, the crowd booed and jeered the sophomore, the only player not wearing an American flag on his uniform. That night turned out to be the last time the flagless Lokar would wear his school's jersey. Last Wednesday he quit the team and dropped out of school. "I have received many threats, directed both toward me and my wife Lara, so that our life has become very difficult here," he explained. "We have decided to return to our hometown...
...Cuban government in exile and U.S. permission for renewed exile raids against Castro. At Miami Stadium, 30 khaki-clad survivors of the Bay of Pigs marched across the rain-soaked baseball diamond to present Miller with a "revered emblem"-a gold-knobbed flagstaff representing their Battalion 2506. It was flagless, they bitterly explained, because their battalion flag had been presented to John F. Kennedy, who had promised that it would be returned "in a free Havana." The emblem was now on tour as a prop in the fund-raising effort for the Kennedy Memorial Library...
...political occasion authorities ordered the flags down. Town Commissioner Washington Irving Lincoln Adams (distant relative) ordered them back up again. Hardly had they been placed out for a second time before the sun set and they had to be taken down again. After a drive through flagless streets, Secretary Adams snapped: "If Roosevelt is elected the homes and lives of 100,000,000 American people might be in jeopardy." By radio from Cincinnati Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth delivered an anti-Roosevelt speech which she had written out in longhand. The Democratic campaign based on "distress and discontent" struck...
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