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...help for the most grievously wounded. Area hospitals meanwhile launched their emergency plans, clearing out as many patients as they could to make room for the casualties. Within hours 100 volunteer doctors had shown up at St. Anthony, the hospital closest to the scene. Fifteen members of Boy Scout Troop 120 arrived to help with blood collection...
...national pastime. The walls of the stadium in Homestead were salmon, the seats turquoise and the mood blue. "It feels strange, to say the least," said Velarde. The players were there to get in shape and audition for jobs, but there was only one, count him, one scout there last Friday...
...well as the Bulls, was more than happy to help Jordan fulfill his dream, although the cynics among us kept harping on the possible ulterior motives. Jordan's pathetic swings in spring training did little to convince anyone of his sincerity. "It's called bat speed," said a scout, "and he doesn't have...
...that doesn't break your heart, why, the Girl Scouts of Washington have to sell 87,000 boxes of cookies a year just to pay their liability insurance. Leave us Girl Scouts out of this, the group said. All right, the reform lobbyists said, if not a Girl Scout, then we will give you a little girl in pigtails who would like to play Little League ball this year, if it weren't for all the lawsuits. The full-page advertisement in the Washington Post said DON'T LET HER SEASON END IN A LAWSUIT. But the horse the conservatives...
...more than upstanding; he is charismatic, what former Secretary of State George Shultz calls "a big presence." His supporters are convinced he can transform American politics into something nobler and more productive. "If he becomes President," says Gaylord Stevens, a Vietnam vet who brought his son in a Boy Scout uniform to hear Powell speak in San Antonio, Texas, as his own father had brought him to hear J.F.K., "we would have a dream again...