Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sons of a West Point Army major who died on a Japanese P.O.W. ship, the brothers were raised in Redondo Beach, Calif. "Tommy was the biggest bunch of trouble," recalls Mother Smothers. "He used to get Dickie and Sherry, their younger sister, to take picnic baskets to the cemetery and eat off the tombstones." At San Jose State College, they were the rage of the Phi Kappa house, and eventually they graduated to a local college hangout, where they were paid off in peanuts and beer. Their twisted versions of folk classics ("Black is the colour of my love...
Yelping Dogs. Richard is a hunchbacked Renaissance Stalin with a monstrous thirst for power. He terrorizes less by his inveterate plots than by his malignantly charged presence, mesmerizing those whom he would murder. Called "a bottled spider" and a "bunch-backed toad," he is nonetheless poisonously fascinating. Nowhere is this more apparent than when he woos and wins the Lady Anne over the coffin of her husband, whom he has murdered. A scene that seems logically inconceivable becomes psychologically astute as Richard, who has never wept, weeps; who has never knelt, kneels. With the reckless audacity of his passion...
Down with Darkness. Even then, the police did not take kindly to the prospect of having a bunch of women tell them how to run their business. Crusade Coordinator Moore and a co-worker camped at police headquarters for 48 hours, explaining in plain language at every roll call that they were there to help, not hinder. They proved their point by using the News to lobby for -and help get-raises for patrolmen. As the women rode along in squad cars for full eight-hour shifts, their determination helped win over the cops...
...Washington meeting of China experts last week, American University's Ralph Powell insisted that much of the trouble stems from Mao's idealistic demand that Red China's leaders should "act like guerrilla revolutionaries." Said Powell: "Mao is a romantic, and they are a bunch of bureaucrats. They don't want to oppose the old man; they just wish he would go away and leave them alone to run their own provinces." Berkeley's Robert Scalapino thought that "the Maoists, relying on the bulk of the army, will survive this crisis, though it is extremely...
...surly bunch of Harvard and Yale trackmen traveled to England to see if their Anglo-Saxon bretheren at Oxford and Cambridge could exert themselves beyond a dainty lift of a teacup. The Englishmen in fact, could. And since that time, they have won 11 of the 21 trans-A antic meets...