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...started hanging out in saloons," he says of all those long treks from one picture location to another. There were plenty of fights. "I'd pick up a beer bottle and clear the table with it." One night back in Hollywood, he chased a fellow up Santa Monica Boulevard "like a raving banshee wielding a knife." His first marriage collapsed when he was 39. Then Oates discovered he had hepatitis. "I had to stop drinking completely, and that saved me, because I began to turn to other things." The other things included writing poetry, playing the guitar, and sailing...
...world press, have been nearly as energetic as the university riots of 1968, in which students disrupted Paris and hastened De Gaulle's exit from public life. One day in February, 15,000 Paris lycée students spontaneously took over the Latin Quarter's Boulevard St. Michel and stayed put for seven hours in defiance of the Minister of the Interior, who had outlawed the demonstration. They dispersed only after a judge reversed a lower-court ruling and freed 19-year-old Gilles Guiot, who had been jailed on flimsy charges of striking a flic during...
...Mayo Mohs, who has written our religion section for the past 2½ years. Mohs had his first personal encounter with hip street evangelists while looking at the movement in Los Angeles. "A fresh-faced teen-ager in a pullover and corduroys came up to me on Hollywood Boulevard and talked about Jesus nonstop," he recalls. "When she finally finished, her friends congratulated her on a 'terrific witness.' It was the easiest interview I ever had." L.A. Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand was covering a religious service at Imperial Beach when he declined the pastor's invitation to declare...
...violence. Now, embracing the most persistent symbol of purity, selflessness and brotherly love in the history of Western man, they are afire with a Pentecostal passion for sharing their new vision with others. Fresh-faced, wide-eyed young girls and earnest young men badger businessmen and shoppers on Hollywood Boulevard, near the Lincoln Memorial, in Dallas, in Detroit and in Wichita, "witnessing" for Christ with breathless exhortations...
...pool; it has walkways and plants growing all around; there is a basketball half court, badminton court, an archery range and, inside, a pool table in a sunken rec room and a den that looks like a cross between a motel lobby and the foyer of a Sunset Boulevard record company. The walls are plastered with platinum records (each signifying $2,000,000 in sales) and various other trophies the boys have picked up. For furniture, there is a bar, a stereo with big speakers and leatherette couches...