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...candidate's right hand was actually bloody from handshaking. "These men have been working in the mines," Kennedy said. "They've got a good grip...
...foot long. Catching sight of the youth racing toward him, Asanuma raised his left hand, almost as in a benediction. Then his eyes widened and his mouth opened in horror when he turned his head and saw the sword. Holding the sword in a two-handed samurai-style grip, the youth rammed into Asanuma like a blocking back, plunging the blade deep into Asanuma's 225-lb. bulk. It pierced his lower abdomen and liver. The thudding collision sent Asanuma's speech notes sailing through the air, jarred off the student's glasses. Then, in a kind...
Asanuma stumbled, his huge face contorted in agony. The youth whirled, took a fresh grip on the sword, and made a second thrust into the left side of Asanuma's chest. As horrified onlookers grabbed the assassin, Asanuma wobbled, then collapsed. He was rushed in a police car to a nearby hospital, but he was dead on arrival...
Cronin first met young Armstrong-Jones in 1958 when Cronin was buttling for U.S. Ambassador "Jock" Whitney, and Armstrong-Jones arrived to take some photographs. "I will say at once," wrote Cronin, clearly in the grip of a remembered passion, "that I was taken aback by Mr. Jones's manner of dress. His coat, if memory serves me, was of leather, and unbuttoned; his trousers much too tight, and of an eccentric material." Cronin confesses that "I betrayed my disapproval on my face and in the unenthusiastic way I announced him to the Ambassador...
...group of extremely conservative alumni, the Foundation has published a staff study" entitled Keynes at Harvard, which charges that the department is in the grip of a "Keynesian orthodoxy," and refuses to tolerate any kind of economics save its own "leftist" variety...