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...wish on New Year's Eve after some frantic last-minute negotiations on the way to New York in a jet chartered by Edward Greenwald, a Yankee owner. The deal is unprecedented in a sport where a player contract for even two years is unusual. It assures Hunter a yearly income of $150,000, plus a $1.5 million bonus and a $1 million life insurance policy. Hunter hardly seemed impressed. Immediately after signing, he flew back to Hertford so he could be there on New Year's day -the last day of the deer-hunting season...
Counting Bugs. The double life of the egghead jock can cause plenty of problems. Medich is taking seven years to complete a four-year medical course. When Dryden was both law student and Canadien goalie, he spent one frantic day taking two long exams, then racing to the Montreal Forum to play in a game. Earlie Thomas has a different difficulty: completing his research in the off-season while staying in condition. "I really get into my research," he says. "I spend as much as 14 hours a day in the field, usually on my hands and knees counting bugs...
...Allied breakout from the Cherbourg peninsula, came a Hitlerian command reflex that the Ultra team had learned to expect. Every time things went wrong, Winterbotham notes, "Hitler invariably took remote control, which was a bonus, since most of his signals went on the air." This time Hitler's frantic radio orders gave Eisenhower "the master plan straight from the Fuehrer." With the Nazis trapped at Falaise, Eisenhower sent General Patton plunging east toward Germany. "Without Ultra," Winterbotham argues, "we might have had to meet the Russians on the Rhine instead of the Elbe, and they would have stayed...
Harvard had 22 turnovers for the game, including a couple of costly miscues in the last frantic minutes...
...minutes later, a second bomb blast transformed the nearby Tavern in the Town into an even grislier scene. The shock waves of the explosion rebounded between the walls of the underground pub, turning flying debris into deadly missiles. Water poured onto the floor and the ceiling fell, as frantic survivors stumbled toward the exit over the bodies of the dead and maimed. Susan Edkin, 18, and her fiance were celebrating their engagement. "People were shouting and screaming," she said later. "I remember there was a man lying on the floor who couldn't see because his eyes had gone...