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...German beer) with Tijuana's mayor, Xicotencatl Leyva Aleman. Nixon stopped by the roadside to play touch football briefly with a group of marines from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, took time off on the way back to show an aide the San Juan Capistrano Mission, gulp down a pineapple milk shake at a roadside stand...
...Walk, Walk, Walk." Coming into the homestretch, Yang fought to gulp down air, and began his final bid for a gold medal. His lead grew to a foot, two feet, a meter. Inch by inch, Johnson somehow gained it back. Then, with only meters to go, Johnson's legs went dead. Momentum alone carried him to the finish line a bare 1.2 sec. slower than Yang's time of 4:48.5 That was close enough: the race of his career had won Johnson the gold medal by the Olympic record score of 8,392 to Yang...
...such angered reaction. All three Houston papers underestimated the ability of Houstonians to find out the news for themselves. The papers were besieged with angry calls. "I am opposed to integration," said one woman, "but I would rather have integrated lunch counters than controlled news." To call ers, Oveta Gulp Hobby's Post blandly replied that the blackout had been taken as "another public service of the Post to insure public safety." But for all their intentions of doing good by stealth, the Post, the Chronicle and the Press would certainly have found life simpler had they lived...
...read the sharp novel, one of the landmarks (1942) of existentialist fiction, when a woman professor gave it to him at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. A slow reader, he was impressed by the book's "contemporary relevance" and also by its short, swift sentences. In one gulp, he downed "this story of man trying to tell the truth," and it stuck with him when he went home from college last year to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. There he applied for a teaching job in the hamlet of Thompson (pop. 296), which has an odd hiring system...
...Houston Post, edited by former (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby, declared early (as it did in 1952 and 1956) for the Republican candidate...