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...climb to the top of Adams or any of the other six Presidentials which jut above the timberline is tough and risky enough to bring die-hard climbers back year after year. But Adam's attraction just begins with its Himalayan similarities. Ask any climber who knows the range well and chances are he'll describe Adams as a mountain which hikers worship: Washington is too commercial and can be reached too easily, Clay and the lesser known peaks are too non-descript. Madison and Monroe have large Appalachain Mountain Club Huts on their sides, and Jefferson is too much...
...words seemed to convey the utmost reasonableness. There was none of the jut-jawed belligerence of a Duce, none of the menacing rhetoric of a swaggering martinet. In fact, an ironic, Pirandellian sense of split realities was inescapable. Here was a former functionary of Benito Mussolini's last government denouncing the "totalitarian" ways of contemporary Italy...
Thomas, nicknamed "Popeye" as much for his heroic feats afield as for his jut-jawed resemblance to the cartoon character, was too much for the real-life sailors from Navy. Though off his customary dodging, quick-cutting form, the wiry (5 ft. 11 in., 170 Ibs.) Thomas scored one goal, set up four others and scooped up twelve ground balls-a skill roughly akin to recovering a fumble in a free-swinging football pileup. Backed by Goalie Les Matthews, who made twelve saves, and Defenseman Jim Ferguson, who meted out his share of bruises, the Blue Jays outlasted the midshipmen...
...SKYLINE at Pine Ridge, capital of the Pine Ridge reservation, rarely rises above two stories. In most rural towns, the stark, white church steeples would go unnoticed, but in Pine Ridge, they jut proudly into the air, as if straining to assume a rightful place in the Oglala culture...
...finished the scoring with 24 minutes remaining. This goal wasn't like the others it came on a lofting shot that jut under the crumble and over the Crimson goaltender...