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Cuccia and the Multiflex were obviously made for each other. The coach had Cuccia taking snaps in the shotgun, then throwing or running. Grizzled press box veterans watched for a while, then began to realize that Cuccia was running single wing--a remnant of football's leather helmet days resurrected for the Multiflex...
...Cubans still at Fort McCoy are a hard-core remnant of the boatlift. More than 90% of them are single men aged 18 to 35 with no relatives in the U.S., few job skills and no knowledge of English; many are barely literate even in Spanish. Some came from Cuban jails or mental hospitals. Among the inmates are 266 juveniles under 18 who are caught in a bureaucratic snarl. They cannot be adopted by American families under a federal administrative ruling that would require the consent of their parents, who are still in Cuba and cannot be reached...
...longer was he the Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans) and Shahanshah (King of Kings), absolute ruler of the remnant of the Persian Empire that his father had renamed Iran. Since fleeing the country in January 1979, he had been a man without a country, a man with a price on his head, placed there by the Muslim fundamentalists who overthrew him. His search for a home took him initially from Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas to Mexico. Last October he requested permission to enter the U.S. for medical treatment. Despite warnings that his admission could irreparably damage relations with...
...mood of Billy Bishop is constantly changing, like the surface of a lake under scudding clouds. It is sad, romantic, exultant. Billy is racked by fear, but victory is his adrenaline. One-on-one combat in the air is the last remnant of chivalry. He gets to Buckingham Palace to receive three decorations from the hand of King George V. His Majesty's first words: "Well, you have been a busy little bugger...
...little-known remnant of Smith's movement is the 221,000-member Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, based in Independence, Mo., which Smith designated his "Zion" in 1831. Fifteen years later, after Smith was murdered, many Mormons followed the dynamic Young on a famous trek to Utah, where they flourished. The Reorganized Church developed from those, including the prophet's widow Emma, who stayed behind, contending that Young was a usurper. The one true spiritual heir to Smith, they believed, was his diffident oldest son, Joseph...