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...Arnold Palmer stepped up to the tenth tee, an official on the adjacent first tee announced: "Now on the tee, the U.S. Open champion, Senor Lee Trevino!" Just like that, several hundred spectators deserted Arnie's Army, for years pro golf's largest entourage, to join the happy, noisy throng called Lee's Fleas...
...Yugoslavia's President Tito entered Sarajevo's magnificent new cultural and sports center last week, the 2,300 delegates to an economic conference cheered wildly and gave him a standing ovation. Then, as he strode to the rostrum beneath portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and himself, the throng broke into the war-time song of the Yugoslav partisans, "Comrade Tito, we give you our word, we shall follow...
...scientists, could one day clone (from the Greek word for throng), or asexually reproduce himself, in the same way, creating thousands of virtually identical twins from a test tube full of cells carried through gestation by donor mothers or hatched in an artificial womb. Thus, the future could offer such phenomena as a police force cloned from the cells of J. Edgar Hoover, an invincible basketball team cloned from Lew Alcindor, or perhaps the colonization of the moon by astronauts cloned from a genetically sound specimen chosen by NASA officials. Using the same technique, a woman could even have...
...Friday night in Anaheim-home of Disneyland-Nixon made a speech dramatizing the San Jose incident before a throng of screaming Orange County supporters. The Republican party bought television time that night to broadcast the address-and it was as good a show as any late-night horror film. His eyes rolling around in his skull, his hands chopping the air in shaky spastic motions, the President asked the nation to draw the line against those who condone and excuse violence...
After two speakers addressed the crowd, calling for a "fighting worker-student alliance," demonstration marshals directed the throng back to the Wayne campus...