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...strides over to the trainee barracks, a nearby three-story brick building. "Female on the floor! Female on the floor!" a door guard loudly yells. Stratton enters so briskly that the men have time only to stand up. "What's this?" she demands, spotting a crumpled white towel tied to the end of a bed. A senior drill sergeant explains, "It's there so we know who to call...
...History!"-and now she reverted to the assassination scene again, as she did all through the conversation. "... Everybody kept saying to me to put a cold towel around my head and wipe the blood off [she was now recollecting the scene and picture of the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson on Air Force One at Love Field, as the dead President lay aft] ... I saw myself in the mirror, my whole face spattered with blood and hair. I wiped it off with Kleenex. History! I thought, no one really wants me there. Then one second later I thought...
Giancarlo Uzielli has thrown in the towel as a member of the New York Stock Exchange -and picked up an apron. To practice up for Uzies, the Manhattan restaurant he plans to open, he has been tending bar at a local dining spot. "As long as they don't throw me a piña colada, I'm O.K.," says Uzielli, who is the ex of Henry Ford's younger daughter, Anne. Uzies will specialize in Italian cooking, including pizza. "I don't like the word pizza. It cheapens it," says Uzielli. By any name...
Seeded first in today's 400-yd. freestyle relay, and riding high on a spectacular performance so far, the team will probably make a lot more waves before they toss in the towel tomorrow night...
Although the score was 72-59 in favor of Yale when the Crimson women's swim team threw in the towel at Saturday's meet, sterling performances by several aquawomen set five new records in a surprisingly good showing against the Ivy champions in blue...