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...turnout worthy of champions -some 5,000 boisterous fans waiting for hours at New York City's Kennedy Airport for the triumphant return of their team and their hero. Was it for the first-place Yankees that the crowd had gathered? The football Giants or Jets? No, it was for a team whose name is still strange to many Americans, but one that should become increasingly familiar: the Cosmos, newly crowned champions of the North American Soccer League. And above all it was for their star, Pelé, the man who more than anyone else has, in the space...
...concepts are startling?and disturbing. Conflict between parents and children is biologically inevitable. Children are bora deceitful. All human acts?even saving a stranger from drowning or donating a million dollars to the poor?may be ultimately selfish. Morality and justice, far from being the triumphant product of human progress, evolved from man's animal past, and are securely rooted in the genes...
...believe it would have been an equally triumphant day for democracy had La Pasionaria been elected in a free election...
...with the aid of some policemen who acted as Sherpas, Willig scaled the final difficult passage to the roof. The jubilant cheers of thousands of spectators and a triumphant cacophony of horns rose faintly to his ears from 1,350 feet below, and he saluted his admirers with a wave. Then Willig turned and fell into the burly arms of the law. He was fingerprinted and questioned, then booked on charges of criminal trespass, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. The city threatened to sue him for $250,000 in damages-citing the cost of mobilizing the police force, the trouble...
...CRIMSON TRIUMPHANT...