Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REFUGEE RIGHTS. To help ensure that corrupt officials do not dip into the aid for the refugees of the Communists' Tet attacks, Thieu spelled out exactly what each refugee family was entitled to get. In Saigon it was $83, ten large iron sheets and ten bags of cement. In Hue the aid was the same except that, because of the excessive damage, each family should get 20 iron sheets. Elsewhere, each family was due $41.50, ten sheets, ten bags of cement. Thieu reported that the refugee rolls had already been reduced from the initial 700,000 created...
Michael Boak's huge styrofoam-covered set blended the conventional Elizabethan stage with the architectural elements of a large handball court. Though sometimes unwieldy with film and action often uncomfortably high, the starkness works to good advantage especially in half-light. The stage floor is reportedly real cement, and any show with a real cement floor has got to be pretty good, at least as far as I'm concerned...
...custody. "I was put in a bedroom with 16 other men," he said, "screaming and urinating all over the place. I stayed in the hall and told the black attendant spook stories. . . ." He became more and more excited and finally was put in the "box," an empty room "with cement all over, small windows with bars and an iron door. I was told to take off all my clothes . . . it was cold. I was not allowed to have water. I was given one blanket. There was nothing to urinate in. I screamed all night . . . ." He left after a week...
...closed down for lack of business, people get their supplies at Belleville, five miles down the road. The population, according to Bobby's sister Judy, 20, is "about 1,000, if you count the dogs. And about 100 if you don't." The only industry is the cement plant. And the only dash of color in the grey landscape-since Bobby left-is a huge red, white and blue billboard that proudly proclaims: POINT ANNE, BIRTHPLACE OF BOBBY HULL, WORLD'S GREATEST HOCKEY PLAYER...
Come Home, Bobby. It was either that or the cement plant. All the Hulls learned to skate before they learned to read. Judy was such a hard-nosed hockey player that the boys around Point Anne once told her parents they wouldn't play with her any more because she was too rough. Dennis, 23, followed his older brother to Chicago, where he also plays left wing for the Black Hawks, and could some day make a name for himself. Bobby got his first pair of skates the Christmas he was four...