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...Veterans Administration Medical Center lie low among acres of vacant grass in the hot afternoon sun of California's San Fernando Valley. In the lobby of Building Four, some men in their 30s congregate, self-consciously checking their watches. One is a musician; another a Los Angeles policeman; two are unemployed; two have police records. They have only one thing in common: Viet...
...said so himself after he had beaten Bjorn Borg and carried off the Wimbledon crowns "I know I need every ounce of me to beat him," So he spared himself and the millions watching him any tantrums and played tennis as well as it can be played on a grass court. He defeated the man who had won 41 straight matches before English royalty and who just missed his sixth consecutive Wimbledon championship...
Thirty-five yards into the grass the big lion lay, flattened out along the ground. His ears were back and his only movement was a slight twitching up and down of his long, black tail. He had turned at bay as soon as he had reached this cover and he was sick with the wound through his full belly, and weakening with the wound from his lungs that brought a thin foamy red to his mouth each time he breathed. His flanks were wet and hot and flies were on the little openings the solid bullets had made...
...dropped the little dog onto the grass and fell down on my knees by her side in an attitude of prayer. I waited and watched as my heart hammered, but those ribs were not moving and the eyes stared sightlessly ahead...
...Meeting at Telgte, Günter Grass...