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Meanwhile, crowds awaiting the jump were partying and building bonfires against the night chill. Bikers and their women stripped naked and drove through the fires on drunken dares. Two beer trucks were ransacked and a few latrines burned to the ground. Some 25 people lurched off the jump ramp, apparently intent on burning it, but were turned aside by shotgun-toting deputies and the sobering information that Knievel could not perform without his ramp...
Precisely at the moment when the 1 p.m. prison whistle sounded, a convict limped into the third-floor library brandishing a .38-cal. pistol. "Get out of here," he shouted at other prisoners, as he ordered them down the ramp from the library. When two guards tried to come up the ramp, the convict fired at them, hitting one in the foot. Both fled. Two other convicts, also carrying pistols, joined the first, and they slammed shut the double glass doors of the library. Trapped within were 15 people - ten employees of the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, including seven...
...them was a crowd of over 2,000 screaming, weeping Athenians," Byron reported. "As the ship was sighted over the horizon, the crowd roared, 'Greece's heroes! Long live democracy! Poison to the E.S.A. dogs!' When the prisoners-journalists, educators, politicians, actors-came down the cargo ramp, thousands of arms hugged them. Many of them were pale and undernourished. They were showered with flowers and smothered with kisses. The incredible demonstration went on undiminished for an hour...
...five unavoidable confrontations with the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, I have had the following experiences: stuck in an elevator for ten minutes; trapped in Airtrans twice; luggage misplaced for 24 hours on two occasions; one suitcase demolished; missed one connection; lost 150 obtaining three quarters; and departed the ramp (in perfect weather) 30 minutes late on each of the five times...
...American Boy is anything like an indictment of Dallas. Or that John Logan's play deals with conspiracy theories or even with Lee Harvey Oswald. The assassin appears only as a menacing rifleman waiting behind a scrim, and then as a sweating prisoner led down the garage ramp to be shot himself. The focus of this elaborate and populous production is Jack Ruby, the bloody little Sunday morning angel of vengeance...