WASHINGTON - A shaken but unhurt Mr Bob Dole (73) fell four feet to the ground after leaning to shake hands from a campaign platform. A photographer broke the fall of the Republican candidate, who joked that he had "won a third Purple Heart" when he resumed his speech in Chico, California.
But Mr Dole's resumed attack on "Hollywood values", claiming that the British made Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction glorified drug abuse, was overtaken by his anachronistic slip in talking of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. They to California 40 years.