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...Gashouse Gang! Not half a dozen of the 1967 Cardinals were yet born when the famous old Redbird team was terrorizing the National League in the mid-1950s - but the family resemblance is unmistakable. There is Lou Brock dashing madly for second and sliding in safely with his 36th sto len base of the season. Curt Flood running full tilt into the centerfield wall to spear a liner that otherwise would have been a sure extra-base hit. Roger Maris crossing up the pulled-back enemy infield with a perfectly placed drag bunt. Orlando Cepeda explaining his .339 batting average...
They gave Gronouski a tumultuous, spur-of-the-moment reception. "Our hearts are with you!" shouted a woman. "We wish you fruitful work!" cried another voice from the crowd. As a class of grade-school children swarmed around him, the gathering sang chorus after chorus of Sto Lat (100 Years), a sort of Polish version of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Gronouski responded in halting Polish: "It is hard for me to express how pleased I am to be able to work in this country, which is so dear to me as it is to millions...
...Imperial Princess Ashraf of Iran-his own personal motorcade, complete with screaming sirens. Best of all was the state banquet, held in the candlelit Bali Room of the Hotel Indonesia. There, while Javanese maidens crooned native melodies, Sukarno fed his guests three French wines and six full courses-including sto Bandung (a rice stew) and a flaming ice cream dish titled bombe glacée Afro-Asia...
...three oldest children went to Sunday Mass at Warsaw's St. John's Cathedral, they emerged to find a crowd of 5,000 waiting for a glimpse of them. The Kennedys clambered atop Ambassador John Moors Cabot's limousine, and were serenaded with a chorus of Sto Lat, a sort of Polish version of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Kennedy asked how many there had relatives in the U.S. About one-third raised their hands...
...illness that cost $21,911.32 and 160 days in three hospitals, Eric Hodgins might pardonably have tried to forget it. Instead, he set out to write off his losses. The result, Episode - Report on the Accident Inside My Skull (Atheneum; $5), is Journalist Hodgins' wry, spry, keenly observed sto ry of a stroke (cerebrovascular accident) and how it has affected his life for the past four years...