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...Haul Comité pour la Défense et l'Expansion de la Langue Française, formed to ferret out all the linguistic "degradation and corruption" of franglais in the land where tons les types enjoy le shopping at le drugstore, having a whisky-soda or gin and tonic served by le barman while they watch the playboys with sex appeal in smokings (tuxes) stroll by on their way to le dancing or le striptease. Ah, M. Pompidou. Hélas, quel...
...Hawthorne High and finished at the Hollywood Professional School. He is a most unlikely-looking surfer: he stuffs 50 extra pounds into the custom-made, pseudo white levis the group wears on stage. Carl spent most of the interview reclining on a bed in another room, drinking gin and tonic and absent-mindedly squeezing a girl who sat next to him. The television in his room blared and he watched, only casually interested he tossed his head periodically, switching the long brown hair from his face...
...revelers in the Ginza cocktail lounge looked like any other gathering of Japanese junior executives: a bit soft around the middle, a bit busky-cheeked from golf and gin, affluent and amiable. The song they were singing sent a charge of shock through the bar: "Monday and Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday, Friday and Friday.". It was a battle song of the Japanese Imperial Navy, extolling daily dedication to the glory of Nippon. As the singing died away, the men spontaneously turned to reminiscences of Rabaul and Savo Island, Bataan and Okinawa. "Wasn't it great," said one, "those...
...radicals see the big house and they react automatically, "Fat cat." But Carter is far from the easy-going Southern planter who chokes on his gin-and-tonic the minute you mention "Negro." He's one of the few people, north or south, black or white, who would rather listen than talk to you about civil rights, even if the topic is his own back yard. The most fatuous polemic brings only a smile, a twinkle of his grey-green eyes, and a friendly "Hell, you know better than that." If you get out on a ideological limb...
...CORE is growing, with more than 75,000 white and Negro members already, and Farmer is pushing the battle for recruits into gin joints, pool halls and candy stores. He further solicits support for his cause in a weekly newspaper column, and in a new book, to be serialized by Playboy magazine called Freedom When. Farmer's answer is "not very soon." That's one reason why in the Negro's long struggle for freedom, CORE is lucky to have a man in command who doesn't tire of the battle...