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...Mayor, I came here on a visit, and I get bombs thrown at me," he declared. "It is outrageous." But the police assured him that they had everything under control. The only added security precaution was to change the return route of the imperial procession. But the bungling police forgot to tell the chauffeur of the lead car about the change, so he made a wrong turn at the bridge into a narrow alley, then had to stop and back out. That maneuver forced the archduke's car to a halt, right where Princip happened to be standing...
Figure skating actually predates the Winter Games as an Olympic sport. When Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived brotherhood in 1896, he forgot to take temperature into account. Figure skating first appeared at the Summer Games in 1908, and brought hockey along in 1920. It was not until four years later that Nordic skiing, speed skating and bobsledding joined them for the first winter pageant, the others straggling in later, the biathlon (skiing riflemen) not until 1960, the luge 1964. But the premiere event is still the first: figure skating...
...pressure get to Blair? "I'm just praying we could hold on," the Stony Creek, Ontario native recalled. "Halfway through the third period, I forgot the score. I knew we were leading by one, but I didn't know I was going for the shutout," Blair added...
...Although Wick had been taping conversations for some time and may well have carried about a tape device for use when away from the office, he denied to Safire and Perlez that he had ever taped without the consent of the caller, and then later conceded that he sometimes forgot to get that consent. The worst example of his failing memory seems to have been the day he allegedly took a pocket tape recorder to Florida and taped a phone call to Chief of Staff James Baker III without telling him. Baker wasn't the only one to find that...
Even better, it was defense the Crimson forgot to take on its two ill-fated reading period trips to B.C., while it couldn't turn on the red lights two January ago and last night at Bright Hockey Center...