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...bunkers in their backyards, using layers and layers of sandbags. Some 12,000 allied troops and 13,000 civilian self-defense men guard the city-compared with a bare 2,500 troops last Tet. The bridges are flanked by bunkers, and the Citadel's blasted walls bristle with squat pillboxes, ready should the war ever again come...
Considering the circumstances, New York Jet Coach Weeb Ewbank's final instructions to his team before the Super Bowl in Miami last week verged on the ludicrous. The squat, 61-year-old veteran of both leagues, still hobbling from a hip injury he suffered when his players carried him off the field after winning the American Football League title two weeks before, seemed blissfully unaware that his team was a three-touchdown underdog against the mighty Baltimore Colts, overwhelming champions of the National Football League. "Don't no body put me on their shoulders this time," Weeb said...
...looks back at the spectators over her shoulder with one eye, brushing her hair back. It is the coldest look I have ever seen. The old man across the aisle says, "Goddam long hair, has to keep it out of her eyes." He wants her too. Her parents, squat and ugly, a mother with a loaf of bread for a head, stand next to her. She is charged with being idle and disorderly, and her lawyer asks for a continuance, more time to prepare his case...
THERE are not many teams at Harvard that would warm up for a match by doing a bizarre set of exercises called 'The Titanic Twelve"--contortions which include squat-thrusts, double burbies, sit-ups-and-leg-overs...
People just love to give things to the British Museum. In the past two years, the squat Greek Revival treasure house on London's Great Russell Street has acquired, among other things, a 5,000-year-old porphyry frog from Egypt, a $1,000,000 collection of historical playing cards, the prow of a Viking ship, some rare 17th century music manuscripts, original letters of Kipling and Yeats, a mosaic pavement from ancient Rome-not to mention a copy of every book published in Great Britain...