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Suddenly, fluttering streamers catch your eye. Pom-poms. Outfitted in coordinated crimson and white pleated skirts and sweaters, cheerleaders, honest -to-god cheerleaders, are moving in from the sidelines...
Close your eyes and slip back in time. It's the high school homecoming game. You are 16, the band is grinding out an off-key school fight song, the cheerleaders' pom-poms flutter in the breeze...
...sweaters were really hot the first two games," she laments. "Almost unbearabble." But the athletic department came through where it counted: the pom-poms are waterproof. "I was really impressed," Coutu says. "They bought the best kind, with plastic shakes. They don't wilt in the rain...
That night the captains stayed with the University of Miami team at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob McClelland, the owners of a plush April Sound condominium. Spence returned the Texan hospitality by performing a series of bawdy Harvard fight songs assisted by the megaphone and pom-poms belong to the McClelland daughters, who are high school cheerleaders...
...kerosene-soaked rags stands in a field. Rifle-toting Klansmen guard the perimeter. The others button up the face panels on their hoods. Wilkinson rehearses them, but they are awkward at the ritual. As they wave their arms, they look a bit like high school cheerleaders learning a pom-pom routine. Some cannot see too well through those eyeholes. Slowly they circle the cross, throwing torches at its foot. The flames race upward, and all salute by raising both arms, as if crucified...