Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results, but I couldn't hear what they told him. So I yelled 'Nice race!' And when he answered Thank you,' I assumed he had won. Next thing I knew, Ethel was standing up, shaking her fist at the committee boat and screaming 'Ya blind bum, ya!' at the top of her lungs." They were some lungs even then. Ethel's last name was Merman. Says Bus: "I sailed away from there just as fast as I could." As it turned out, he was the winner...
...killed his wife in a nightmare or in cold blood. Death Kit is much the same. The hero is a junior executive named Diddy, and the question is, Did he, while traveling on a train, butcher an innocent railroad workman? Diddy is sure he did it; yet a blind girl near by who hears all and who proves to be on target about everything else, says he never left his seat. But most of the time Diddy's deed seems the least of the author's concerns, for she is too busy with other things: writing the kind...
...decide whether or not Diddy left his seat, knows right off what his problem is: alienation. "Diddy merely inhabits his life," the author says. "One can redeem skeletons and abandoned cities as human. But not a lost, dehumanized nature." God knows Diddy tries. He falls in love with the blind girl, marries her in an attempt to help them both...
...Blind Pig. Typically enough, Detroit's upheaval started with a routine police action. Seven weeks ago, in the Virginia Park section of the West Side, a "blind pig" (afterhours club) opened for business on Twelfth Street, styling itself the "United Community League for Civic Action." Along with the afterhours booze that it offered to minors, the "League" served up black-power harangues and curses against Whitey's exploitation. It was at the blind pig, on a sleazy strip of pawnshops and bars, rats and pimps, junkies and gamblers, that the agony began...
...They Won't Shoot." When the trouble began outside Twelfth Street's blind pig, the 10th precinct at that early hour could muster only 45 men. Detroit police regard the dawn hours of Sunday, when the action is heaviest in many slums, as a "light period." The precinct captain rushed containing squads to seal off the neighborhood for 16 square blocks. Police Commissioner Ray Girardin decided, because of his previous success with the method, to instruct his men to avoid using their guns against the looters. That may have been a mistake...