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Paul Booth is a most unlikely-looking revolutionary. The press has described him as "clean-cut with a shock of curly, sandy hair and blue eyes," and to me he appeared the quintessence of innocence. In the six hours I spent with him during his Harvard visit, four different people walked into the room, looked him straight in the eye, and asked "Where is Booth...
Eggs & Red Paint. On the whole, the Vietnik rallies - which also attracted some tweedy faculty members and clean-cut non-beats - seemed to bear out a Senate Internal Security Subcommittee report issued last week. While most members of the protest movement are loyal Americans, it said, control of the movement has "clearly passed "into the hands of Communists and extremist elements who are openly sympathetic to the Viet Cong...
...would be temptingly easy to dismiss Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., U.S.M.C.(ret.) and astronaut as little more than a huge boy scout made good. Tall, tanned, fit, graceful, handsome, just shy enough, pleasant, polite, friendly, modest, sincere--just think of any epithet related to "clean-cut," and it probably applies to the colonel. A country lad who went to Muskingham College, a United Presbyterian Church school in his home town of New Concord, Ohio, married the girl a quarter of a mile down the road, joined the Marine Corps in 1941 and stayed for 18 years, Glenn seems about...
After their first alarm subsided, fanny-dippers and local authorities have discovered that East Coast surfers are mostly clean-cut collegians whose hair is as short as their surfing history. In Delray Beach, Fla., the Seacrest Hotel bitterly opposed an ordinance that gave 200 ft. of adjoining beach over to surfers, claiming that they would drive away wealthy regulars. Now the hotel is happy it lost the fight. Its patrons crowd the outdoor terraces on hot afternoons to watch the surfers. Said Police Chief James Grantham: "There hasn't been a single problem. If I were younger...
Zorba the Greek resembles the Cretan landscape which it portrays so magnificently. Its themes are as ancient and clean-cut and harsh as the rocks. For this is a film about the struggle to live--to survive physically, to force nature to yield a living, and to continue to be glad you are alive. And it is about a community, its harsh and timeless rites, its reaction to outsiders...