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...journey downtown, the Manhattan fans alternate between taking swigs from their quart bottles of beer and chanting, "The Ram is dead." By the time they reach the promised land, the Manhattan supporters have worked themselves into such a frenzy that there is no way they will have any voice left at the end of the game...
...With the Ram fans coming from Rose Hill down the Dyer Ave. line to the Garden triumphantly singing school songs, there is no way that the game on the floor can match the cheering in the stands. All the noise, cheering, boozing and carousing makes a great atmosphere for basketball...
...first formal speech as President, Johnson told a joint session of Congress: "All I have I would gladly have given not to be standing here today." His memorial to the slain President was to ram through Congress the New Frontier bills and programs that had been so long delayed. In 1957 he had reversed a record of opposition to civil rights; now he made what the New York Times called the "deepest commitment to the Negro cause of any American President." In his March 15, 1965, speech he even included the black challenge: "We shall overcome...
When it comes to staging military coups, Honduras' swarthy Army Commander General Oswaldo López Arellano, 53, has had plenty of on-the-job training. In 1963 he overthrew the liberal government of Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales in order to end what the general described as "flagrant violations of the constitution." López's eight-year rule was notable mostly for the four-day "football war" with its neighbor El Salvador in 1969, a skirmish that started after Honduras claimed that its honor had been insulted during a soccer game between the two countries...
...stepped aside last year in favor of a hand-picked successor, Lawyer Ramón Ernesto Cruz, 69, who became the country's first popularly elected President in 40 years. Cruz proved to be an ineffectual leader. He allowed the shaky ruling coalition to fall apart, and he was unable to ressuscitate the faltering economy-partly because he failed to restore trade relations with El Salvador or to take an active role in the Central American Common Market...