Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...street. Then, calmly setting his shopping bag on the sidewalk, he pulled out a Beretta submachine gun and opened fire. Inside the car 34-year-old Colonel Ghassan Jedid Defense Commissar of Syria's outlawed Socialist Nationalist Party and onetime commandant of the Syrian military academy, slumped over dead...
...lighted the faggots and Jean's eyes rose with the flames. Suddenly, before a dummy could replace the lady not for burning, a gas pocket, fed by hidden jets, ignited and enveloped Jean in fire. Chortling make-believe satisfaction a moment before, the film extras now screamed in dead earnest. After foam extinguishers doused the blaze, Jean, luckily only singed, was carried off by a studio cop and a hooded executioner from the cast. Later, through her ointment, Jean, only a year or so out of bobby-sox, offered a thoroughly unsaintly version of her martyrdom: "I smell like...
...Midwest's 75,000 Indians (who got U.S. citizenship only 33 years ago) have been encouraged by the Federal Government in recent years to quit the "rural slums" of the reservations. Says Rowan: "Most of the younger generation sees that the arrow is broken, the tribe is dead." But, poorly educated, lacking technical skills and elementary economic judgment, they enter the white man's world with "handicaps that burden no other group of Americans...
...Good & Dead. "When local whites criticize the South for racial segregation," asks Rowan, "is it a case of the pot calling the kettle black?" Rowan says he found "almost no citizen who will say directly that he considers the Indian racially inferior, or inherently a loafer or a drunkard." Yet the director of an Indian hospital at White Earth, Minn. told him: "The feeling in some communities is that the only good Indians are dead Indians." In many areas Indians are denied admission to hospitals, refused police protection, turned down when they apply for social-welfare...
...week, there was a good-sized batch of local stars whose talents raised them above purely local acclaim. The standouts made up an odd package of assorted shapes and sizes. Some of them: dead-eye offensive demon with an uncanny knack for hitting the hoop. Hampered by a so-so team, Chet manages to shake loose an average 29 points a game with set shots from outside, or driving lay-ups. All season he has been right up among the leaders for national scoring...