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...glaring controversy was the javelin competition, which began a little after 5 p.m., when the spear throwers complained that a fellow could lose his Olympics in the sun. Duncan Atwood noted, "It was sort of like having a flash go off in your face just as you released." Mel Durslag, a Los Angeles historian for the Herald Examiner, recalled that similar worries were heard in 1958 when the Dodgers wanted to put home plate in the Coliseum's east end. A man from nearby Arcadia proposed floating a giant balloon over the west rim, thereby shading the batter...
...until they reached a two-story wooden building. Ushered to the second floor of Pastora's headquarters, the journalists found the guerrilla commander at a narrow table. After some cheerful banter, the questioning began. Suddenly, in the middle of a response, a bomb exploded in a white-hot flash. "It was a human whirlwind," said José Antonio Venegas, a photographer for La Nation, a Costa Rican newspaper. "Blood splashed against the walls, people flew through the windows. Someone screamed, 'Save me, help me, don't leave me here!' All I knew was that hell...
...easy question. But it is enough to note that the activists' ability to tone down their political or social involvement without contradicting their beliefs is much easier once they have concluded that fundamental change is a slow, long-term process that does not occur in a blinding flash. Emmanual P. Krasner '69's statement in the 15th year Class Record speaks for many of his classmates: "I recall that I once intended (with a few friends) to wreak massive changes in the world and I haven't done it...I am devoting less time to saving the world and more...
...thin, Zen way, it is the most interesting office in American public life, a political antiworld: it is a condition of utter impotence that is a heartbeat away from the greatest power in the world. It is a form of political cryonics. The Vice President is, so to speak, flash-frozen and then, should the need arise, thawed out later. There is no such thing as a good Vice President or a bad Vice President?a Vice President is simply a hypothesis on hold. John Nance Garner, Vice President in Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms, said that the office...
...reason for this spate of dangling story lines is hardly a mystery. As fictional characters from Little Nell to Flash Gordon have proved, nothing keeps audience interest perking like an unresolved predicament, followed by the tantalizing line "... to be continued." TV's cliffhanger mania began four years ago, when J.R. was gunned down by a mysterious assailant on the final episode of Dallas' 1979-80 season. After a summer of suspense, the "Who Shot J.R.?" mystery was solved (it was his sister-in-law Kristin) in a segment that drew the largest audience of any TV program...