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...state of Veracruz, grew up knowing that his place in life was that of a poor workman. "There is nothing better in this world than upright work," he says-to the constant irritation of his children. Lenore ("the first woman I ever had") bore him two boys, Manuel and Roberto, and two girls, Consuelo and Marta. Of the four, only Marta holds his affection. He considers the rest ungrateful, worthless drifters. "They don't like to have anyone order them around." he says. "First they want to be millionaires and then...
Lenore died shortly after Marta was born. Manuel, the oldest, was eight at the time. "I was asleep on a mat on the floor next to my brother Roberto. My little sisters, Consuelo and Marta, slept on the bed with my mamá and papá. As though in a dream, I heard my father calling. He called to us when he saw my mother slipping away from him. I was always a sound sleeper and my father had to shout. 'Get up, you bastards! Hijos de la chingada! Your mother is dying and you lying there. On your...
...Roberto would hold the same stone and would murmur, 'Mmmmm. What is this good for?' But he wouldn't know the answer...
...first National League run came on a triple by Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente and a sacrifice fly by Bill White of St. Louis, the second on Clemente's sacrifice fly (scoring San Francisco's Willie Mays), the third on a pinch home run by Chicago's George Altman. The American League tied the game in the ninth when howling winds turned the contest in San Francisco's Candlestick Park into a Little League affair-there were a record seven errors, a passed ball and a balk-and went ahead 4-3 in the tenth...
From his Leopoldville headquarters in a dirt-floored former bar, Rebel Leader Holden Roberto admitted his rebels were fighting a losing battle, but were not yet knocked out. Roberto's forces, once 50,000 strong, now number only 10,000 unpaid men; and his only contact with them is through couriers, who take ten days to make the round trip between Leopoldville and Angola's desolate battlefields. "We have made mistakes and we are paying for them," he told his followers in the Congo. "We are now changing our tactics and retreating into the forests until...