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...heart attack," the aging man in front of me said humorously, his woman companion trying mournfully to smile) the car would have more dents than Cleon Jones's wallet, and the angry man would have gone off crying, hopeless, forlorn, hanging his once-proud head in shame, like Shoeless Joe Jackson at the Black Sox trial. Why--who--how could he have left the car there, this of all days? After a while the kids started throwing rocks at passing trucks, but since it wasn't a demonstration the cops stood by benignly and only the car got hurt...
...Stride. McGovern toured the delegation caucuses with other candidates, arguing his case. Before the credentials fight, says Gary Hart, "he was as apprehensive as I've ever seen him. It knocked him off his stride." As McGovern monitored the battle on TV, he sat shoeless and tieless on a couch eating a T-bone steak and ice cream, and occasionally fondling his month-old baby grandson Matthew. At 3 that morning, Eleanor McGovern drove back to the Doral from the convention center; when she got there, she found that the candidate had gone to sleep...
...Buchwald spotted the implications of the trend. It is all part of a widespread conspiracy among university professors, Buchwald wrote in his syndicated column. Knowing that the FBI has planted undercover agents among student radicals, the professors are furiously criticizing Hoover in lectures, then watching to see which shoeless, bearded longhairs stomp out of the class in protest...
...carried spears, others led bullocks. Nearly all were shoeless and clad only in tattered rags. Last week, in the largest land grab in India's recent history, peasants by the hundreds of thousands marched out in ten of the nation's 17 states and seized land held by rich landlords and the government. From Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in the north to Maharashtra and Gujarat on the west coast, they claim to have seized a total of 32,000 acres, at least temporarily...
When solicitous old friends asked Manuel Cortés Quero, 63, how he was feeling, he replied: "These shoes are killing me." With good reason. For the past 30 years Cortés has been shoeless, padding around in carpet slippers in an upstairs room of his house in Mijas, above the seaport of Málaga. His self-imposed imprisonment ended last week when Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered an amnesty for all survivors of the losing Republican side in the Spanish Civil War of three decades...