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...drove up to the embassy building, found President Olympio lying in a pool of blood just outside the compound. There were red finger smears on the gate, as if he had struggled to rise. As embassy aides carried the corpse into the courtyard, fat lizards scuttled away across the gravel and lounging Togolese soldiers watched silently from a nearby street corner...
...surprise - the experience of moving from a barren street through a narrow opening in a high wall to find a quiet court with a lovely garden and still water; or to tiptoe through the mystery and dimness of a Buddhist temple and come upon a court of raked white gravel dazzling in the sunlight ; or to walk a narrow street in Rome and suddenly face an open square with graceful splash ing fountains." To these abstract ingredients, Yamasaki has lately added another one that is quite
...silhouette against the sky." He set glass walls behind slender, marble-clad steel columns with ornamental sunshades and grilles to provide "texture." For "surprise," he provided a triangular-patterned skylight over the two-story-high central gallery, and for "delight" an el-shaped pool outside with islands of white gravel. When the building opened in 1958, there was a ceremony at which Yamasaki, who is no orator, made a brief speech, thanking the university for the opportunity it had given him. When he finished, he was stunned to find that every person...
...vinegar. "There is nothing Gordie can't do except sit on the bench," says Frank Selke, managing director of the Montreal Canadiens. Most players favor one hand. Howe can blast with either hand, and his huge wrists and forearms-toughened by summers of "throwing" concrete and gravel-propel the puck toward the net at 90 m.p.h. What sometimes seems like uncanny accuracy comes from Howe's study of every goalie's weakness: "Some are vulnerable to rebounds-like Glenn Hall of Chicago. He has a habit of falling backward when he makes a save. Jacques Plante...
Losing no time in starting their quest, the Crusaders almost captured the game in the first three minutes. Jim Gravel ran the opening kick-off back to the Holy Cross 40 from the 15. McCarthy was in an excellent position for attacking. He did immediately, but his first pass failed. Undaunted, he continued with his pass action style of football, and only three plays later the ball was laid on the Harvard 18. Switching to orthodox, short run plays, McCarthy then had his fellow backs assault the interior line until he had achieved the one yard line. Harvard's forward...