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...Commerce told him in the afternoon, the Yale Club would tell him that night?that he is a sure thing. Nor did Koch tell the Yale Club anything different than he told the Greater Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, except for talking more about financial issues. Otherwise it was pure, consistent Koch, goading his listeners, giggling with malice ("heh, heh, heh"), shining among the crossed oars and dead dignitaries on the walls, as he shone everywhere else he went that day (in appearances at City Hall; Washington Square Park; Gracie Mansion, the official residence; at Shea; in Queens; at the Yale...
Fuel tanks became incendiary bombs, ejector seats blasted from burning planes, a superheated machine gun opened fire spontaneously, missiles detonated. "It was pure hell," said Chief Warrant Officer Bob Henderson, "just ungodly." Rob Burton, 21, one of the fire fighters, recalled: "The first explosion knocked down two whole hose teams." Added fellow Fireman Bob Barton: "There were some of us buried under wreckage. We went up with our hose but lost pressure." Another seaman remembered the shock of seeing casualties brought below deck from the holocaust: "My chief was on the first load from the elevator. He was missing...
...petitioners and sycophants. Other subjects were all too clearly shaping their own legends. Gangster Albert Anastasia must have commandeered a photographer's studio for a week to achieve his straw-hatted, natty, top-lit look, which is that of a matinee idol portraying a gangster. Perhaps the best pure photography in the show is a picture of Robert Louis Stevenson. Ordinarily depicted as a dour, moody presence, Stevenson gave a photo to a fellow passenger on an ocean liner that meets Weston's dictum: it lays open a vital and engaging face. A forefinger of his clasped hands...
...expected we'd get some long jail sentences because we'd decided to keep going back until we got locked up." But they were never imprisoned. "I think it may have had something to do with pure chance, and something to do with our age, and something to do with the fact that these were Irish Catholic judges and this was the abortion issue...
They are a greater threat when the arteries are already narrowed. "There are probably some patients with pure atherosclerosis, and some with pure coronary artery spasm," says Braunwald, "but I suspect the majority of patients have both...