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Less known to outsiders, but known all too well to his coaches, is his knack for getting injured (ever so slightly but enough to be worrisome) in antics around the pool. He broke his toe on a trampoline before the 1959 Yale meet; he tore a toenail walking up steps to shower after winning his Olympic team berth...
...climax, Castro held up a copy of the 1952 Cuba-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty. He roared that "by the sovereign will of the Cuban people, this treaty is annulled." Then, while the mob bawled its approval, he tore it up. For good measure he ripped in two a copy of the week-old Costa Rican declaration. From Russia came support. Said Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "The Soviet people are enthusiastic about the courageous struggle the Cuban peopie are waging...
...sales. The September issue features a story called "Tragedy of Newport Festa," telling of the riots that broke up the Newport Jazz Festival this summer. In this case, the Japanese got there first: at Tokyo's first jazz festival last summer, an overflow crowd almost tore down the joint to hear a succession of Japanese big bands and combos and moan "Shinu, shinu, shinu...
...Johnson won his first national championship and became the favorite to win the Olympics that November in Melbourne. Then his battered left knee, in jured in high school football, began to swell. Just before the games Johnson tore a stomach muscle. It was painful even to walk, worse to run. Each jump ripped the muscle more. Johnson's two agonizing days came to a climax in the final event, the 1,500 meters. To finish second behind Milt Campbell and to stave off Kuznetsov, Johnson needed to run the best 1,500 of his career. He did. "Sure...
...time he landed in Chicago to take his bows. Again, from hotel and office windows, the confetti poured down in torrents ("It's a different kind; it really sticks," he gasped. "It sticks and it chokes," replied Nixon), and Chicagoans as well as the Republican conventioneers tore loose in a huge, cacophonous reception that visibly left Ike bubbling. In the quiet of his suite, Ike and Mamie got together with the Nixons for a photo fest and a few informal greetings. (Pat Nixon, shaking Mamie's hand, said, "I shook 3,000 hands of women yesterday." Cracked Mamie...