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Died. Nathan Leopold, 66, who with Richard Loeb murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it in 1924; of a heart attack; in San Juan. Both brilliant graduate students and the offspring of wealthy Chicago businessmen, Leopold and Loeb fancied themselves Nietzschean "supermen"-a notion that they set out to prove by carefully planning the kidnap-execution of a random victim. The killers were spared the death penalty and sentenced to life imprisonment "plus 99 years" after Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow made pioneering use of psychiatric testimony. Loeb was slashed to death in a 1936 prison fight...
There is no Mittyism about this. I could never for an instant imagine myself performing the feats of these uniformed supermen; yet thinking about Sunday's heroes does offer relief from mundane cares. When I fall asleep, however, I begin to dream middle-aged dreams. I dream that I am old, egg-bald Y.A. Tittle in high-top shoes, running a bootleg into the end zone on my weary legs. Or I dream of being Sonny Jurgensen, proudly puffing out my potbelly as if it were a chest, fading back and letting go with the most accurate...
...central characters. The book tells the story of the two most important events in a three-month period on earth. One hero is sent as a reporter to cover the biggest story of the year, the announcement that Asian geneticists have discovered how to make a race of supermen...
...astronauts in Latin America last week demonstrated unrestrained adoration. In Mexico City, Bogotá, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, women and children crowded into the streets simply to touch Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins, or to tear off pieces of their clothing as souvenirs. "You are supermen," said an Argentine admirer in broken English as he shook Armstrong's outstretched hand. "No," answered Armstrong in Spanish, "we are common...
...body. And in a recent, surprisingly touching Star Trek TV script, the crew of the spaceship Enterprise stumble upon the Greek God Apollo on a distant planet, only to tell him that they can no longer worship him, as they did when he and his race of supermen lived on earth...