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...shells of Jeeps and the bodies of men; water and power were cut off, food was running low (and food markets closed), and there was growing danger of disease. Few people ventured out of doors, and many slept in corridors and bathrooms for fear of being injured by stray bullets or flying glass. Said an English businessman who escaped to the Central African Federation: "Elisabethville is a city of terror and hate-hate by the entire population, black and white, for the United Nations troops...
Fastballs & Foul Tips. Even when the fans, players, coaches and managers are reasonably passive, the umpire faces other dangers. Physical injuries are common. Most dangerous assignment: calling balls and strikes behind home plate, where the umpire is an easy mark for a stray fastball or foul tip. Before he traded his thin, hair-stuffed National League chest protector for an inflated American League model, fragile Jocko Conlan absorbed a regular beating. His hospital record: two broken collarbones, two broken elbows. Last fall in Baltimore, American Leaguer Larry Napp was struck by three successive pitches-one on the mask...
...more widely accepted version: that he got hit by a stray bullet fired by one side or the other during the Cuban invasion...
...return to the city she had come to love as a student at the Sorbonne. In two truckloads of presidential luggage was a blinding array of gowns and jewels?and in making her plans. Jackie was keenly conscious of the fact that no tiny sag or hemline or stray strand of hair would escape the notice of the style-conscious people of Paris...
Curt LeMay is not much of a hand for chitchat. When his aides, in reporting, begin to stray from the subject at hand, Curt is certainly curt: "Stop, you're talking nonsense." Recently subjected to an interview by a Washington pundit who seemed more anxious to make speeches than to ask questions, LeMay interrupted: "If you know all the damned answers, then what are you doing here?" LeMay is as hard-boiled a disciplinarian as exists in the high command of the U.S. armed forces. But he is renowned for backing his men when they make understandable mistakes...