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...great last words traditionally included in anthologies have usually been more serious than that, and often sound suspiciously perfect. Le style, c'est I'homme. General Robert E. Lee is said to have gone in 1870 with just the right military-metaphysical command: "Strike the tent!" The great 18th century classicist and prig Nicolas Boileau managed a sentence of wonderfully plump self-congratulation: "It is a consolation to a poet on the point of death that he has never written a line injurious to good morals...
...played terribly. It's the worst loss of the year, and I think we know that," Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin said after his road show folded its tent just one more time. "It's the worst 40 minutes that I can remember...
...facilities, that it is difficult for the guards to protect inmates from one another. As a result, hundreds of prisoners have been killed and wounded in a decade of violence. State prison officials have long wanted to tear San Quentin down. Instead, they have built a 1,000-bed tent city in a former playing field...
...Something historic happened on this spot," said Billy Graham, standing in front of the Los Angeles County traffic court building where the tent had stood for his first crusade. But could it have been 34 years ago and could the evangelist be celebrating his 65th birthday? Yes on both counts. Last week 1,000 cheering fans and local politicians watched as Graham unveiled a plaque commemorating the 1949 start of his Crusade for Christ. During that eight-week stint, 350,000 listened to the young preacher; more than 100 million have done so since. "I have never changed my message...
After sitting for six days under the eyes of U.S. Army guards, the Cuban construction workers were permitted to move to a more habitable tent city they had erected near the airstrip. All of the captured Cubans were sent there as the tedious process of interviewing each man continued. The U.S. interrogators wanted to determine just how many were professional soldiers, trained reservists, ordinary workers or various combinations of all three. Many of the prisoners looked too old, paunchy or otherwise unfit to be soldiers...