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Kicks & Tugs. Nobody ever has found a way to stop Pelé-short of mayhem. Desperate opponents trip him, tug at his jersey, aim vicious kicks at his shins and groin. The tactics rarely work. In a game against Argentina in 1961. Pelé was on his way to a score when a burly Argentine fullback knocked him flat. The referee signaled a foul. But in the split second it took to toot the whistle, Pelé had already leaped up and kicked the goal. The awed ref wrapped his arms around Pelé, apologized and reversed his ruling...
Friendly has a point. The shrieking housewives who made integration so difficult in New Orleans might have stayed home and done the dishes had there been no TV reporters to assure them of nationwide exposure, hair curlers and all-but then again, they might not. Men have wrought considerable mayhem without a single reporter in sight, and there have been cases where reporters have even served as a restraining leash. "To be sure," Friendly admitted, "the presence of the press at Clemson caused no trouble and did not create a bad story out of a good...
...second bout was pure mayhem, with Whiteside and loser James Driscoll flailing wildly as they shoved each other back and forth across the ring...
...Fine Art of Literary Mayhem, by Myrick Land. Carlyle was not feuding with Emerson when he called him "a hoary-headed and toothless baboon," but most of the other literary figures in this book are-and their pejorative language is choice...
...FINE ART OF LITERARY MAYHEM (242 pp.)-Myrick Land-Half, Rinehart & Winston...