Word: decks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Once again something old looks very new. The "Jesus deck" of the U.S. Games System cards [Feb. 19] would have sold well in the late 18th century. Moravians, Methodists and even Baptists of the era silenced gossiping tongues and profitably filled idle hours with "Draw Cards," "Divine Amusement" and "Mr. Charles Wesley's Scripture Cards...
THERE are Jesus posters, Jesus pins, Jesus watches and even Jesus T shirts. Now there is a Jesus deck-the standard deck of playing cards made into a colorful bit of Gospel propaganda by Manhattan's U.S. Games Systems. Clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades become the suits of Luke, Matthew, Mark and John. The cards carry the evangelists' traditional symbols: the winged ox for Luke, the winged man for Matthew, the winged lion for Mark, the eagle for John. The standard 13-card suits prevail, designated one through king, but every card is a "picture" card, decorated with...
Whether what's coming is a West Texas farm boy playing Bach fugues on a cactus pear or the White House staff singing footlight favorites, you can bet your quadraphonic tape deck that Farrell and his competitors will be on hand, those contract-signing ballpoints at the ready...
...lodge's garage. Whoever else had been involved with Essex-one cop insisted that he saw a black woman sniper-race clearly played a large role in the killings. At about the same time Bemish was shot, a black chambermaid almost bumped into the sniper on the pool deck. "Don't worry," he reassured her. "We're not going to shoot any blacks, just whites. The revolution's here...
...small spark started the conflagration, there was plenty of brittle tinder lying about to keep it going. A preliminary investigation report, put together by Navy officers and obtained by Downing last week, states that the riot really began when 30 or 40 blacks, screaming and yelling on the mess deck, were confronted by Marine guards with their nightsticks at the ready. According to the report, by the time the captain arrived, a couple of the blacks were holding chairs over their heads, and a white was exhorting the Marines to attack them with inflammatory remarks like, "Kill those niggers...