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...where he was born 36 years ago. He was raised in Palm Beach, Fla., where his father was the town's police chief-a former cowboy who believed in "fanning Burl's rompers till he knew what was wrong." To Burt he seemed a stern, inflexible hulk. After briefly running away from home when he was 14, Burt channeled his belligerence into athletics and won a football scholarship to Florida State. When a knee injury and a car accident aborted his athletic career, he drifted into college dramatics, then dropped out of school in 1955 to take...
...Bogside below, a huge combat bulldozer, its 76-mm. cannon shrouded in canvas and its turret turned backward (to avoid photographs reminiscent of the Soviet invasion of Prague), headed for its assigned target. It rammed through a barricade of cement blocks, twisted pipe and the hulk of a burned-out bus. Then, at the crossroads known as "Free Derry Corner," it halted-blocked by the Bogside's most formidable barrier, a truck chassis embedded in solid concrete. The bulldozer poked at it, broke the great blade that projected from its snout, and finally backed off and rumbled away...
McGovern's camp, which is formidably organized in Wisconsin, always contended that the race would eventually narrow down to their man and Hubert. To staffers still preparing offensives against Muskie, McGovern Adviser Frank Mankiewicz scoffed last week with perhaps premature bravado: "You're firing torpedoes into the hulk of the Graf Spec...
...have begun a decade ago, but in the socially aware '70s it has reached full blossom. The comics' caped crusaders have become as outraged about racial injustice as the congressional Black Caucus and as worried about pollution as the Sierra Club. Archfiends with memorable names like the Hulk and Dr. Doom are still around, but they are often pushed off the page by such new villains as air pollution and social injustice. Sometimes, indeed, the comics read like a New York Times Illustrated...
BOSTON-Frank "the Hulk" Howard parked one in the net just below the Gilbey's Gin sign, and the Washington Senators were just getting started. More Nats buzzed the bases. Boston Red Sox starter Bill Lee had let in five runs before Eddie "the Fox" Kasko could find the number to his bullpen. Maybe it would rain...