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...white helicopter dropped out of a darkening sky, veered around a thick tree and sank its runners into the lush grass in the middle of a soccer field at El Salvador's leading military academy. A chubby figure dressed in blue jeans and a wind-breaker bolted from the chopper, dashed across the pitch and threw herself into the arms of her weeping mother. A moment later, Inés Guadalupe Duarte Durán was swept into the embrace of her tear-choked father, President José Napoleón Duarte, for whom the nation's civil war had lately become an agonizing...
Pretty soon the sun, an orange gob, slid down the cobalt sky, and the field lights came on. Slab-sided referees took their positions. The combatants appeared, 17-year-old Texans big around as the bole of a sequoia born when the local mail came by Pony Express. The Midland band played Dixie. Young drill teams strutted: the dancers had the tendony legs of Appaloosas--and orthodontia that cost the earth. A student gave the prayer over the loudspeaker: "Thanks for getting us here O.K., Lord, and I just pray you let the boys play without any harm to anyone...
Reports of the event stirred amateur stargazers from coast to coast, inspiring them to stare expectantly last week through shiny new binoculars and small telescopes at a region near the Pleiades, a tight star cluster in the eastern sky. Like Morris and Edberg, all hoped to catch a glimpse of the itinerant mass of frozen water, rock and gas whose periodic reappearance was first predicted by English Astronomer Edmond Halley...
Brown’s right-field blast with two on and two out in the bottom of the sixth inning soared through the cloudless blue sky, cutting through the air with velocity and momentum. But both the ball and Harvard’s dreams of a comeback fell just short of the target...
Brendan Byrne—who had entered the game the inning before—singled. Klimkiewicz was hit by a pitch, and Rob Wheeler walked. The slumping captain Sky Mann—bumped down to seventh in the lineup for both games that day—crushed an inside fastball over the trees in left center field to tie the game...