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Bands of Lunda natives, armed with knives, machetes, and razor-sharp bicycle chains lashed to sticks, stormed through the streets looking for Baluba youths wearing monkey fur headpieces and animal-skin war dresses. Both sides chased terrified police out of native quarters, brushed aside the pleas of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe when he arrived in the city begging for the carnage to stop...
...Blood. For Ford, Miller's promotion has particular significance. Like McNamara before him, the razor-sharp, rapid-fire Nebraskan is what is known as a "Friden type"-Detroit's term for financial men, derived from the trade name of a calculator. Miller's move into the presidency is thus a clear sign that the often criticized financial elite will continue to guide Ford's future...
Married. Bess Myerson. 37. TV mistress of ceremonies. Miss America of 1945; and Manhattan Lawyer Arnold Grant. 54. razor-sharp counsel for filmdom and onetime RKO board chairman; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...magician with a bat, Cobb was almost as wizardrous in the field; he once threw three runners out at first base from the outfield in a single game. And on the base paths he was dazzling. Swirling through a cloud of dust with razor-sharp spikes flashing high, Cobb gave baseball some of its most memorable moments. He stole 892 bases, 96 in a single season (1915). Three times he stole all the way home from first base, and once, recalls Casey Stengel, he scored from third on an infield pop fly: "Ty just waited until the infielder got ready...
...spectators at the Orlando paid $6 just to get into the arena, anted up another $5 if they wanted reserved seats down front. With avid concentration, they followed every move of a band of fierce-eyed battlers that literally would rather fight than eat or mate. Handlers first strapped razor-sharp spurs to the feet of their birds, then placed them on their marks on the clay-floored ring. At the referee's cry of "Pit!", the cocks were released to clash feet-first in mid-air in frantic flurries of squawks and feathers...