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Gorbachev followed the proceedings from his seat just behind Chernenko's. A balding figure in a gray three-piece suit and wire-rim glasses, he fidgeted restlessly and riffled through the pages of his speech, which was bound in a red folder. Two hours before he stepped up to the polished, dark wood lectern to nominate Chernenko for President, his own name came up on a list of parliamentary committee chairmen. The neoclassical hall was wrapped in a post-luncheon lethargy and few delegates were in their seats when the announcement was made that Gorbachev had been appointed head...
...started our rounds by walking down a long, narrow alley that led to the dumpster behind a cookie shop, Joseph hoisted himself so he could see over the receptacle's rim. "Looks like they didn't throw anything out today," he said. "You've got more guts than I have," he added admiringly as I clambered into the dumpster to make sure...
Trout had been shooting free throws that bounced off the back of the rim, so maybe the Crimson figured another man could do a little better. The senior co-captain sent two shots--you guessed it--to the back of the rim...
...backcourt, Bob Ferry controlled the pace of the Crimson attack. At the charity stripe, the nation's leading free-throw shooter sank eight of his attempts, hitting the rim once. Ferry also prevented All-American Johnny Dawkins from scoring once the Crimson went man-to-man towards...
...bombings were almost anticlimactic. Earlier in the week, Lebanese Army units had battled Shi'ite militiamen for control of positions near the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps, on the southern rim of Beirut. Though Nabih Berri, leader of Amal, the main Shi'ite militia group, agreed to let government troops take over the sites, the Lebanese soldiers moved in with guns blazing. By the time an uneasy truce had settled over the area, officials estimated, the death toll was 50; unofficially the total was put as high...