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Their good work also earned them a number of handsome contributions (somehow the name Rockefeller keeps popping up when Advance's financial backers are discussed). Encouraged by their success, most of the Advance editors, who graduated last spring, deserted the warm, friendly cinder block walls of Quincy House and struck out for Washington...
...visitors' dressing room deep beneath the stands at Chicago's Comiskey Park, Charles Sonny Liston, 28, sat swaddled in towels and a white terry-cloth bathrobe. He stared at the green cinder-block walls for a moment, then turned his baleful, red-flecked brown eyes on Jack Nilon, his "investment adviser." "It's cold outside," grunted Sonny. "I'm gonna make it quick...
Mariel, a port near Havana, a cinder-block wall went up to screen the docks; local Cubans nicknamed the area "Little Berlin." But there was no way of concealing the Red army trucks and armored cars lined up five-deep for a quarter of a mile along Havana's waterfront San Pedro Street. Exiles with contacts in Cuba reported convoys of military vehicles, radar vans, mobile generators, field kitchens, and flatbed trucks bearing cylindrical objects under tarpaulins rumbling inland from the quays...
...music (all jive, nothing square) and atmosphere (a roomful of peers) that the teen-ager likes. The success of the Stick, which is jammed six nights a week with undulating youngsters, has led to the creation of two other teen-age nightclubs in the Los Angeles area: the Cinnamon Cinder (a "supper club" where supper means pizza and "no Levi's or Capris" are permitted) and Pandora's Box, a slightly more sophisticated version of the plain old teen-age club. Pandora's has the distinction of having ejected Hollywood Starlet Tuesday Weld, who claimed...
Gasping the acid, insufficient air, For this we labored through a rainy night Tired and frozen, up each cinder stair, Without the proper formula for prayer; But blind, not simply mothlike, toward no light...