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...graying, former college basketball star, the Rev. Louis Gigante is no stranger to conflict. The Roman Catholic priest once broke up a city council meeting to protest official indifference toward his impoverished, crime-ridden parish in the South Bronx. He has picketed FBI offices to object to, among other things, identification of his brother Vincent as a Mafia soldier. Now Gigante is engaged in another battle. With the grudging acquiescence of his archbishop, New York's "fighting priest" is running for Congress. "People tell you all the time that a priest should not be a candidate, and they...
Violence is no stranger to Lawrence, a community of 40,000 in Kansas' eastern-border country. A century ago, m the bitter Border War over whether Kansas and Nebraska would be slave or free, guerrilla bands moved back and forth across the Kansas-Missouri line, pillaging at will...
Swigert is no stranger to in-flight emergencies. Once, while flying with the Air Force in Korea, he landed his plane in a driving squall, crashed into a road grader someone had left on the runway and walked away unscratched from the blaze that demolished his aircraft. Another time, as he was landing at Buckley Air Field near Denver, his brakes failed and his plane slammed into the base's arresting cables, but he escaped unhurt. Although he was a last-minute replacement on Apollo 13's star-crossed trip, Swigert showed great skill in improvising new emergency...
...during the idyllic optimism of the McCarthy spring, this unlikely group came to the unlikely town of Catonsville, outside Baltimore, to bear witness to the value of life, a strange act for Americans. an even stranger act for members of the church of Cardinal Spellman. They walked into the offices of Local Board No. 33, seized several hundred I-A files, and carried them outside, where they placed them in a wire trashburner. They then poured napalm over the files (made from a recipe in a Special Forces manual-"two parts gasoline one part soap bakes") and destroyed them. Then...
BEFORE I learned that professional wrestling matches were crooked. I could never understand why the wrestlers fought or why the audience watched. As well as I could determine, each wrestler challenged the other-probably a stranger-with no motive other than a passionate, competitive desire to dump the other guy on his head and keep him there. For the audience, there was only the thrill of a dirty punch, and some half-hearted speculation on an obvious outcome. When I discovered, however, that the men in the ring were getting paid to perform, and that the audience knew what...