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...them blasted land ing zones with machine guns and rockets in support of a South Vietnamese assault, then destroyed four enemy bunkers and sank 14 guerrilla sampans in another operation. "She's the kind of thing you can fall in love with," said one pilot. "She's lean and mean...
...most of his life, lean, lobo-eyed Jesse James, now 39, seemed well on the way to paralleling the career of his notorious namesake, though less successfully. A hard-bitten Harlem Negro, he spent a dozen years in Comstock, the Elmira Reformatory and Sing Sing for crimes ranging from narcotics addiction to armed robbery. Out on parole in 1961, Jesse went West and straight -even to the extent of becoming a lay minister in the All Nations Church of God in San Francisco. Last week, in the city's crime-rife Mission district, a new James gang was riding...
...kind of pitching, all it took to wrap up the game was a pair of runs, both of them supplied courtesy of Leftfielder Lou Brock, 28, the Cards' hardhitting (at .299) lead-off man and baseball's most artful burglar since Maury Wills decided to go straight. Lean, whippet-fast, a master of getting the jump on a pitcher, Brock has stolen no fewer than 189 bases in the last three years, and reform never entered his head last week. Four times he came to bat, four times he singled; twice he stole second, and once he went...
...quietly laughing the last laugh and taking Ec 101 (Tu. Th. 2:30-4:00), The Economy of the United States, and Ec 108 (M. W. F. at 9, Spring Term), Economic Development and Underdevelopment. Both courses are taught by charming, interesting lecturers who have the courtesy not to lean too hard on the red pencil...
...have any need of it. The Negro's woolly black hair once provided insulation against the heat of the blazing tropical sun; his thick lips, by exposing more mucous membrane, may have increased the body's evaporative cooling powers in torrid climates; his characteristically long legs and lean frame were once distinctly helpful to some prehistoric race of hunters...