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...talk that "if you go to the streets, your people will desert you, and you won't have the opportunity to have these integrated crusades." But then and ever since, he has been criticized for his role. "He should have been more deeply involved earlier on," argues Dean Joseph Hough Jr. of Vanderbilt University's Divinity School. "Had he been, he could have had quite an impact...
COMING 'ROUND ONE SIDE OF THE mountains is John Hough. On New Year's Day, the 43-year-old police sergeant, a veteran of the Los Angeles riots, took in a view of California's San Bernardino Valley -- as best he could. A blanket of smog had smothered the landscape. "Look at that crappy air," he said to his wife Patricia, 32, as they drove home from a Colorado vacation. "Why are we spending the young years of our life in California when we like Colorado so much better?" In the next three months, Hough would turn in his badge...
...concert of Rockies foot stompin' inside -- especially when the team approaches competence. Rightfielder Dante Bichette strikes out but reaches first base when the catcher drops the ball, and receives an ovation. The infield turns a creaky double play, making the putout on .057-batting pitcher Charlie Hough, and the crowd cheers as if Babe Ruth had just gone oh-fer. "All that noise they make gives me an adrenaline boost," says Bichette. "You don't want to embarrass yourself in front of 60,000 fans." First baseman Andres Galarraga, the Venezuelan whose dimpled charisma is the club's handsomest calling...
...have known that because the device would be detonated in the reinforced enclosure of a garage, it would deliver more bang for the buck. An enclosed area can double the "shock wave" value of an explosion. "When you have a contained explosion, the blast doesn't vent," says Phil Hough, president of International Explosives Disposal (USA). "Effectively the building becomes part of the bomb." Says Phillips: "The garage was the perfect location because of both the damage to the upper floors ((with smoke)) and structural damage the bomb would cause at the base...
...Comiskey Park, and Chicago White Sox fans were ready to gawk. The splendor of the grass, the picture-perfect sight lines from the lower deck and the allure of the sun-speckled bleachers all trumpeted that this was a park made for baseball. Before the game, aging knuckleballer Charlie Hough, trying to hang on with the White Sox, captured the festive mood when he said, "I love the outfield seats. I'd enjoy sitting out there, I'm sure. I hope I don't have...