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...mysterious defection of an all-American G.I. Joey...
...willing refugee in North Korea. "I have to fight to save my son," Mrs. White says. "If they can capture one, they can do it to a hundred, and soon they'll be on the West Coast." On the mantel sit two photographs of her G.I. Joey. "They're breaking him down," insists Mr. White, at once hopeful and horrified that he is right. "My son's still resisting. I know he is." Perhaps Father knows best. But not even he has any real idea why on earth Joseph White took a walk in the dark...
...Bridgeport or Hartford or wherever--then you have to go because New England Jai-Alai is to Florida Jai-Alai what the Freshman Union is to Locke-Ober's. The Babe Ruth of the sport, Churruca, retired in a tearful ceremony last year, but legends like Calzacorta. Joey, Zulaica and Recalde are still around. If you do bet, stick to the quiniela box, and don't forget the mandatory pre-game dinner in Coconut Grove...
...father, a responsibility attended the natural gift, and to his credit, Joe Sr. took greater pains than foul tips for his son. He stayed in one place, working at the Civic Finance Co. and with Joey, so that there would be no restraints on the boy's career. (His wife, Theresa, worked as a secretary in the same office.) "I remember when he was ten, he wanted to quit midget football. His mother said, 'If he doesn't want to play, why don't you leave him be?' So I said, 'The hell with...
...enduring emotion, of many complex ones, appears to be gratitude. "I love my kid, whether he ever played football or not," says the father softly, "but the part of him that made him so special, I loved that too. I'd say to him: 'Joey, it's not easy for me to holler at you; it kills me.' Joe understood. He wanted the things for himself that I wanted for him." Gentler still, the son says: "Sometimes I just want to tell him, 'You accomplished for me what you wanted; it's time...