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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inner Fire. A gangling 6 ft. 2 in., Williamson burns with incandescence and carries with him the smell of smoldering cordite. If he were not lit with inner fire, he would be sin gularly unprepossessing. Alan Brien, col umnist of the London Sunday Times, once described him as having "eyes like poached eggs, hair like treacle tof fee, and a truculent lower lip protruding like a pink front step from the long pale doorway of his face...
...admits to 220 Ibs., but the way they are spread over his 5-ft. 9-in. frame, he looks even beefier. He is a brash Irishman who comes on strong, forever "God-bless"-ing strangers, swearing at friends and consigning his enemies, who are many, to hell. When he made his big decision last week, Mr. James Breslin informed the world in his own waggish way-with a Page One ad in the New York Times, a paper for which he has never written. It said: "ROBERT j. ALLEN: You are on your own. I am giving up my newspaper...
...surgeon's-eye views of Emergency Room One in Parkland Memorial Hospital when Jack Kennedy died in Dallas. He detailed the final minutes of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. "Here he was, trying to get dressed for dinner, and he had no tie." Breslin was only 20 ft. away from Bobby Kennedy when the Senator was shot in Los Angeles. "Robert Kennedy is on his back," Breslin wrote. "His lips are open in pain. He has a sad look on his face. You see, he knows so much about this thing." Bobby and Breslin were friends, and Jimmy...
...Life. For two members of the Real Madrid team, defending champions of the European Cup title, basquetbol has become a way of life. Clifford Luyk, 27, a 6-ft. 8-in. center from the University of Florida who was lured away from the New York Knicks by a touring Madrid scout, and Wayne Brabender, 23, from Montevideo, Minnesota, have both become Spanish citizens. "It was not for political reasons or anything like that," says Brabender. "But I like the life here and have lots of friends." More typical of the U.S. players abroad is Brabender's teammate, Miles Aiken...
...fairly smooth ground. Through rough spots it is slower, but neither mud, sand nor grades as steep as 75% will stop it. In water, it cruises at 1½ m.p.h., propelled by its rotating wheels, or 5 m.p.h. with an optional prop. The open tubs, which form the 7-ft...