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...mostly Basques, and they are groomed and guarded as carefully as any race horse. They start training at eight or nine, arrive in the U.S. at 16, spend two years playing in minor-league Florida frontons before getting a crack at Miami's big time. They are forbidden to drink anything stronger than wine, are locked into their quarters before every night's matches -so that they cannot be approached by gamblers. But there are compensations: top players get $20,000 a season, and late Saturday night, when the week's work is over, the stage-door...
...fifty undergraduates who flocked about him, and followed him from the hall, was something more. They almost seemed to have discovered the parent of their dreams, at once both sophisticated and protective; a parent who would indulge their most impermissible desires, who would personally promote their initiation into the forbidden mysteries...
...assassination, the Macmillan Co. announced that it would stop shipping and promoting its bestselling J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth. The publishers felt that for the time being they should lay off ballyhooing the severely critical work by Author Victor Lasky, 46. That did not mean that bookstores were forbidden to sell copies on hand, and the book never faltered from its top position on the bestseller lists. So, with local supplies dwindling, Macmillan decided to start shipping again, though the promotion ban continues. Said a Boston bookshop manager: "I can't stand olives, but if I were running...
...always been a rebellion for Aronson. After eight years of Hebrew studies, he turned against the strictures of orthodoxy and started learning to paint with Karl Zerbe. At first he defiantly depicted only New, therefore more forbidden, Testament figures Works like his Young Christ (see color) won him a place in 1946's 14 Americans exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...committing itself to defending the biracial system, he said, Mississippi has erected a "totalitarian society" that blocks change and causes social paralysis. "Thus the Mississippian, who prides himself on his individuality, lives in a climate where nonconformity is forbidden, where the white man is not free, where he does not dare to express a deviating opinion without looking over his shoulder...