Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Powell's reforms had little charm for Jerry Myles, 44, six-time loser (burglary), sometime poem scribbler, and the prison yard's most flagrant homosexual. Nor did they change the attitude of Myles's closest friend, willowy, 19-year-old Lee Smart, who at 16 got 30 years for clubbing a man to death. Last week the pair conspired to set off one of the most harrowing riots in the recent years of trouble in the nation's prisons...
...fingers, tried to explain matters at the National People's Congress assembled in Peking. The new puppet ruler of Tibet, the 22-year-old Panchen Lama, had promised full support to the Red army's crushing of the rebellion and expressed "great sympathy and concern" for his friend, the Dalai Lama, "who has been abducted by the rebellious elements." Red China's Premier Chou En-lai unctuously declared that "although the Dalai Lama has been abducted to India by the rebels, we still hope he will be able to free himself and return to the motherland...
...years later Hoosman landed a leading role in a German movie called Toxi-and the part set him to thinking. Says he: "I played a Negro G.I. who regrets having left his girl friend in the lurch, and comes back to Germany to get his baby." It led him to try organizing boxing benefits for G.I. Negro children; but he got little help from the U.S. Army, which was not anxious to call dramatic attention to its illegitimacy problem. Last year, impelled by the fact that the great majority of Negro-fathered children are now approaching the school-leaving...
...weeks later, Costa Rican Communist Boss Manuel Mora flew into Havana. That same night on TV, Castro took 15 minutes to denounce Costa Rica's Figueres as a "bad friend, a bad democrat and a bad revolutionary." Apparently freshly filled in on Costa Rican political gossip, Castro said that Figueres "left the presidency of the republic with more land than when he began his term. I will leave with less land...
...vocal knee-bends: OHO, OHO; AHA, AHA; ZZZZHH, ZZZZHH ; UMPAH, UMPAH; OOOOH, OOOOH. The personage in whose honor the morning rites are performed is abrupt, autocratic, rumpled Professor Paul Baker, 47, head of Baylor University's department of dramatics. In the judgment of Actor Charles Laughton, an old friend, Baker is "crude, arrogant, irritating, nuts and a genius." He is also one of the most effective college teachers in the country...