If there's one place that I could put my finger on and say what's the No. 1 place that if a rogue aircraft came in and you had trouble it would really have a huge amount of trouble, it would have to be Houston, Texas. Boy, that could just bring America to its knees, almost.

No one ever had a finger on the pulse of sports fans in this town the way Hal did. That was his greatest strength.

I really think the Navy is wrong on this one.

I advised him to speak to no one except me about the poisoning. I told him his (finger) prints at the church could be a problem. I said the police could search him and his property with a search warrant. I told him the residue in the can could implicate him. I advised him to maintain his normal work schedule.

No one wanted him; he was outcast from life's feast.

It wouldn’t be the first unfamiliar finger up his ass.