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Even more worrisome was the possibility that the latest assaults will touch off additional violence. As Michael Simpson, 9, was carried into a Rome hospital last week in a state of near shock, he kept repeating, "It will never end. It will never end." He was, of course, referring to the horrible ordeal he had just endured. But he could just as easily have been describing the inevitable cycle of terror and retaliation that has come to characterize politics in the Middle East. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Walter Galling/Rome and Gertraud Lessing/Vienna
...Bird has the old boy felt such a tingle for a machine. In time, hot, rank desire draws him to Edwards Air Force Base, a copy of Chuck Yeager's autobiography tucked into his kit. He aches to see this needle-nosed supersonic bat in the flesh, touch it. Let us just say that happens...
...more than a wonder. He logged a record nine straight 100-yd. running games this season and led the team in receptions. After Chicago thrashed the Los Angeles Rams, 24-0, to take the National Conference championship, one Bear after another stopped by Payton's locker just to touch him. "Eleven years of climbing that mountain," he sighed, speaking not altogether figuratively. As the boy once ran the hot sandbanks by the Pearl River close to his home in Columbia, Miss., the man has made training device of a black dirt hill near suburban Arlington Heights. "I have to work...
...blowy day at Soldier Field, Ditka trusted McMahon to come out throwing to his breezy receivers like Willie Gault, the track star, and Dennis McKinnon, the football player. On the other hand, when Ditka dispatched a draw play in the third quarter, McMahon snorted and whipped a touch down pass to Gault. Los Angeles Coach John Robinson said he "played like a great quarterback today. He had presence and command." Now, there's a slogan for a headband...
...play behind the All-Pros," flects the Bears' 6-ft. 2-in., 304-lb. regular defensive tackle and part-time running back. "You know, play a little short-yardage defense, some special teams, make a few tackles hopefully. But to end up on offense and stuff, scoring touch downs and everything, being on a team that's 17 and 1 too. It's just a lucky time." A lucky time. "Big Will," laughs McMichael lightly, delightedly. If any teammates begrudge Perry his windfall, they have been discreet. "When he first got into the defense, I'd have to tell...