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Cardinal Manager Whitey Herzog said yesterday he was considering using right-handed hitting Tito Landrum in place of Coleman, who stole a rookie record 110 bases as St. Louis' leadoff man this season...
...noise was like thunder," recalled Tito Garcia Mendez, 60, who was riding the city's sleek subway, one of the capital's brightest successes. "All the lights went out. People began screaming. I felt dizzy. I thought it was because I was hungry." Fernando Levaro, 21, a medical student, was driving to an early class. "My car began swinging from one side of the road to the other. I could see lampposts and buildings swaying. People began to run, but they didn't know where to go. It was terrible." Arturo Cholula, 40, was getting dressed...
...Olympic Committee awarded the Games to Sarajevo in 1978, the town had a third-rate mountain with a few lifts for recreational skiers and no ice rink at all. They built two rinks and a bobsled run. They also cut a road up a mountain previously traversed only by Tito's Nazi-fighting partisans, and they built hotels, cross-country ski trails and a network of chair lifts to newly hacked-out downhill and slalom courses. They did it all for $125 million and produced a tidy, if not quite Los Angeles-size profit of $10 million...
Torrijos, who had wrested power from the ruling Arias family in 1968, was a showman, a strongman and a dreamer, an irresistible combination for Greene. The general was also a friend of Tito's, an admirer of Gabriel GarcÍa Márquez's novels and a lover of numerous mistresses. "How could one fail," writes Greene with pointed sincerity, "to like this man?" The general had remained in power be cause of what Greene acknowledges was "a streak of cynical wisdom." Torrijos liked to announce, "I don't want to enter into history. I want...
...stranger in paradise.' We were humming it, holding hands, and I looked down and saw all these beautiful blue spots. I asked Bill what they were, and he said, 'Swimming pools.' "I was impressed. In all Belgrade we only had two-and one belonged to Tito...