Word: cajun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted" flyers merely suggest that he is somewhere between 66 and 74 years old and may have been born in Canada, France or the U.S. Lafitte loyally claims U.S. birth. He says that he was born to the madam of a bawdy house in Louisiana's Cajun country. His mother, he relates, took him to France, abandoned him and left him to be raised by friends. He denies a French police report that he was arrested in 1921 and claims that the authorities picked up a relative whose name he just happened to be using at the time...
DISCOVERY '68 (ABC. ll:30-noon). The French influence is visible, audible and edible throughout this study of "Cajun Country" in southern Louisiana...
...Fleckman led the U.S. Open after 54 holes-only to collapse with a last-round 80. A health-food enthusiast (honey, brewers' yeast, wheat germ), Fleckman borrowed $6,500 to finance his fling at the tour and won the first pro tournament he entered: last year's Cajun Classic. Some pros insist that Fleckman does not follow through properly, and flips the club during his downswing. But he is making that flawed swing...
...combination of grit and polish. He hates cold weather from his tours in Canada, speaks acceptable Spanish from his connections with Latin America. He enjoys opera, frequently attends performances in New York with U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, another buff. On business trips, he likes to get up a Cajun card game known as Bouree, a variety of pitch in which pots get increasingly more costly. He seldom loses at Bouree, but he can afford it if he does. For running its global empire, Jersey Standard last year paid him $395,833 in salary and bonuses. He is a devoted...
...amiable peddler who teaches young Nevada how to shoot. Keith warns the lad to give up his search for the killers, or "root with them in the garbage." Nevada prefers to root, and finds plenty of raw material. A winsome Kiowa Indian prostitute (Janet Margolin) and a Cajun slattern (Suzanne Pleshette) lend immoral support before he finally corners and cripples the third and last gunman (Karl Maiden) after joining his band of cutthroats. Nevada Smith unreels in refulgent color against a sweep of rocky crags and sagebrush more magnificent than usual, as though Cinematographer Lucien Ballard had tried to fill...