Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's issue of the Summer News is the last, gang. No more can you grab up the paper on the way to dinner and read the exciting news. No more can you browse through the classified section or glance at the attractive ads. No more can you admire the fine photographs. But all is not lost; we'll be here next year, same time and place...
Sudden Retirement. Though the U.S. is trying to compel Duvalier to mend his ways, Haiti's intransigent tyrant was still showing a preference for his own gang instead of the army. The army's chief of staff, General Jean-René Boucicaut, worried for his own safety, fled with his wife and children to asylum in the Venezuelan embassy. Swearing in a replacement, his fifth army boss in as many years, "Papa Doc," as Duvalier likes to be called, blandly announced that the 44-year-old Boucicaut had reached "the age of retirement...
Besides these, though, the Philies are pretty much the same old gang that lost 23 straight last season and finished dead last...
...father (Camilo Delgado) is a guitarist who refuses to wash dishes for a living for fear of ruining his musician's fingers. The mother (Rosita de Triana) simmers in sad-eyed frustration. The son (Robert Gentile) tries to do an honest job as a grocery boy, but street gang punks torment and entangle him. The daughter (Greta Margos), a lissome, raven-haired beauty, gets work in a garment-factory loft, but the piggish foreman makes her earn her overtime pay with bodily favors. Her "promotion" is to become a call girl for out-of-town buyers. As the shady...
...macabre, sick-style prison humor: "Ain't I a pain in the neck?" says the hangman to the condemned. But some of his cartoons rise to a choking pitch of bitterness, a stifled scream: "You with the dignity," a guard shouts at a curiously proud marcher in a gang of grey. "Get back in line...