Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gordonstoun is anything but luxurious. Dormitories are stark and functional. The daily regimen, while it pays due deference to academic achievement, ordains two cold showers a day, student-labor details (Charles, more often than not at first, drew the garbage detail), and plenty of toughening outdoor sports. The Prince was not cosseted. One of his teachers made a point of referring to him as "Charlie-boy," and on the rugby field he was hit hard, often deliberately. He made few close friends. Most boys, afraid of being scorned by their fellows for "sucking up" to Charles, treated him distantly...
...employees paid out of public funds. Gradually the anti-union tradition crumbled under strong pressure. A 9 p.m. curfew enforced by National Guardsmen cut the spring tourist trade. A Negro boycott of white businesses also did economic damage to the city. National publicity was mostly unfavorable and the strikers drew support from national labor and civil rights groups...
When Correspondent David Schoen-brun appeared, Cavett deftly turned the talk to De Gaulle and the French elections. He put a bearded and denim-wearing Peter Fonda at ease and then drew him out about the American educational system ("It's a mess-but my old lady won: our kids go to school") and the generation gap ("My father and I have gotten much closer in the past few years." At least "we talk to each other on the phone every...
Fortunately, Jackie's other qualities include a thick skin and the killer reflexes of a mongoose. In a recent taped TV interview-later judiciously edited -she drew first and last blood from a female reporter...
Before the Paine Hall sit-in and the subsequent probation for 125 students, Kaplan and Glazier had known one another only through a loose friendship in the Crimson Key. Through Paine Hall and the winter, the increased political activity drew the two politically together. Although they had never cooperated as chairmen of the HUC and SFAC, their areas of concern began to overlap and more...