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...standing on the steps of a freshman dorm when he was "accosted by some five or six riot police holding 'Nigger sticks'...poised and raised for the downward swing," he says...
...tramped across a huge relief map of Normandy spread across the floor. He said he intended to capture the city of Caen, eight miles from the beaches, on the first day. He might even get to Falaise, 32 miles inland. He would "crack about and force the battle to swing...
...months, U.S. Ambassador William Swing had been hearing reports of how smugglers operating across Lake Saumatre from the Dominican Republic were flouting the United Nations fuel embargo against Haiti. Last Wednesday morning, Swing finally saw for himself. About an hour's drive from his elegant residence above Port-au-Prince, he stepped out of his armored car and trained his binoculars on a flotilla of wooden boats laden with large blue drums of petroleum. "It looks like a staging area for some of the contraband coming across," said the ambassador, an observation that has long been obvious to Haitians...
Take those ticket prices. With a top fee of $350 a seat, the Streisand show (which begins its five-city U.S. swing this week in Washington) far surpasses even the priciest predecessors in the can-you-top-this field of concert extravaganzas. But Streisand doesn't see a problem. "I think this price is fair," she says. "If you amortize the money over 28 years, it's $12.50 a year. So is it worth $12.50 a year to see me sing? To hear me sing live? I'm not going to do it again...
George Bush, a decade younger, nevertheless was caught up in the Chowder and Marching retinue during his days as a member of Congress. "Nixon was on this swing through the country back in 1966 when he went out and raised money for a lot of newly running candidates," Bush recalled. "I was one of them. Nixon came down to Houston and helped. I was kind of awestruck. He had done so many things, and he was getting ready to run for President again. I was the new boy on the political block, and I was very appreciative for what...