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...Maine lumbermen during the Civil War, the President himself noted: "I don't believe that there is a man in that regiment with longer arms than mine." In 1907 a sculptor working with Lincoln casts observed that "the first phalanx of the middle finger is nearly half an inch longer than that of an ordinary hand." The President sometimes squinted with his left eye. All of these characteristics, according to Schwartz, are typical of Marfan's syndrome. In fact, Lincoln's "spiderlike legs," a phrase used by one of the President's contemporaries, was the very...
...sleeping bags and blankets on the cold, concrete floor. The kibbutz leaders intended to build bunk beds in this shelter, but since the outbreak of the war they have concentrated instead on building several additional new shelters. When we are all squeezed in, someone locks the two ten-inch thick steel doors that are supposed to protect us from the outside world...
...over the past 35 years. Stored in a musty basement of the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul are plaster busts of Humphrey and his wife Muriel, a doll made of apples and holding a copy of the Senate rules, a container of holy water from Lourdes, an eight-inch-wide cookie made of Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when he was Senate whip), a paint-by-number picture of Rin Tin Tin, and an egg laid by a hen on the day a man first walked...
Coach Bob Donovan of Harvard sent one of his more random squads into action, an aggressive organization that fought to the last putt around the first rim of darkness, but after Mingolla's minions had aerated all 18 greens with approximately 10,000 one-half-inch gouges to prepare for the July onslaught of Messrs. Nicklaus, Floyd, Watson, and Severiano Ballesteros, these Four Greenskeepers had ridden down everything in sight. The scoreboard told the tale: University of Connecticut--413 strokes; Holy Cross--415; Williams--415; and Harvard...
...they, like the Israelis, have been watching carefully to see what the other side would do next. Abu Jihad, the P.L.O. commander in the south, visited one location last week within sight of Israeli tanks. "So far as we can see," he said, "the Israelis have not moved one inch...