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...Tigers scored two runs in the fourth inning after Oakland starter Ken Holtzman hit a wild streak. Catcher Bill Freehan, starting his first game since September 21, when he broke his thumb, capped the Tiger scoring in the ninth with a home...
...timeout, McGovern campaigned more spontaneously than Nixon and occasionally suffered the consequences. In Brooklyn, he managed a pained chuckle when Democratic County Leader Meade Esposito promised to "support the Democratic ticket to the bitter end." Addressing labor leaders in Tacoma, Wash., McGovern called the area the "economic sore thumb" of the Nixon Administration. He promised a job for everyone, "though I can't spell this out line by line." The caution was advisable, since on his last visit to Washington he had pledged 25,000 new jobs if Boeing concentrated on building a quieter aircraft engine. That was possible...
...longer; meanwhile, once cold eyes had assumed remarkable warmth. George McGovern's mouth, however, was a disaster-too weak and narrow for a winner. Asano reconfirmed his diagnosis with palmistry. Sure enough, enlarged photos of the Nixon hands showed an unmistakably straighter head line, which begins between the thumb and index finger and runs across the palm...
...most fanatical. "It occurred to me," the police chief said later, "that I might try to take him hostage. He must have sensed what I was thinking. 'Do you want to take me?' he asked, opening his hand. I saw a hand grenade. He had his thumb...
...Berlin's old Potsdam railroad station. During the war, Allied bombers pounded the place into rubble. In 1945, the ruins became part of the Russian sector of the occupied city and were later included in what is now East Berlin, even though they protruded like a battered thumb into central West Berlin. In 1961, when the Communists built the Wall to close off their portion of the divided city, they did not bother to extend the barrier around the perimeter of the barren site. Instead, they simply sealed it off from the rest of East Berlin with their "death...