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...exactly a dramatic way for the Radcliffe tennis team to end an undefeated season. There were no final thundering volleys for match point against rugged competition. There was no cheering throng to greet the winners. There was no tension...
...their home game, you see, played on Harvard's field) and trailed 6-5. Big, and I do mean big, Mel Seibolt, the designated hitter, stepped up to the plate against Harvard hurler Norm Walsh and clouted one into left-center. The Northeastern team bounded from the dugout to greet the seeming hero, only to watch Don Driscoll haul it in by the fence for just another long...
...until the snows had melted enough for two of the party's strongest members to make a harrowing, ten-day descent in search of help. When helicopters finally reached the mountaintop on Dec. 22,14 Uruguayans, most of them less than 20 years old, were still alive to greet their rescuers...
...since the 1954 arrival of honeymooning Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio had there been such delirium at Tokyo International Airport. A record crowd of more than 4,000 was on hand to greet the returning hero as he flew home from Manila. Press helicopters hovered outside his Tokyo hospital window, while newspapers devoted full-page spreads to him. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka personally took writing brush in hand to inscribe ten poetic characters. The message: "The air of a heavenly hero will prove awesome through a thousand autumns...
...laughs appreciatively at the description of troopers peering inside, hoping for a glimpse of porno films but seeing only flickering psychedelic lights. When the cops finally storm the place, they find no orgy, no mob of spaced-out kids. Instead, Leary, dressed in white pajamas, comes politely downstairs to greet them. The ensuing critique by other prisoners credits the story's spirit and impressive detail. All in all, the reaction amounts to a rave review for the author, G. Gordon Liddy...