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...began the ninth grade at Pacific Heights' exclusive Urban School on a $1,200 scholarship procured by the Rebels. Required reading for Garcie's social studies course, which deals with "the American Dream," is James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, and Garcie remarked with a grin after one session: "You're lucky I didn't lead a revolution right here...
...back to the cheering audience and a thumping, hard-sell reprise of the Sgt. Pepper song--yells, bravos, laughter, and exit the Beatles, their musical over. Except for their most triumphant and theatrical bit of all--an epilogue which wipes the grin off the face of a wildly contented audience and sends them home with the willies. A "Day in the Life" is no joke; all the buoyant comic comment finally gives way to a flood of tristitia mundi. Paul McCartney's sweet, detached, phantasmic voice begins, "I read the news today, oh boy,"--a strange, sad phrase which grows...
...fellow who might take a milkshake instead of a martini, never smokes a cigarette, and always squeezes the toothpaste from the bottom. The worst anybody can say about him is that maybe he isn't quite sloppy enough. Even his smile is nice, a big, shiny perpetual grin. But on a boat, with an opponent to devastate, the smile has a saber-toothed quality about it. "In match racing," says Mosbacher, "the idea is to find your opponent's Achilles' heel-and sink your teeth into...
Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher Jr., 45, is not the sort of fellow anybody would invite into a friendly poker game. Behind that genial grin are the instincts of a tiger shark. In last week's America's Cup observation trials off Newport, R.I., Bus once more demonstrated why he is rated the slickest blue-water sailor in the world. At the helm of Intrepid, he ran off a string of five straight victories, including a 3-min. 46-sec. trouncing of Pat Dougan's refurbished Columbia - the boat that was expected to give Intrepid its stiffest battle...
Kiotsuke! The Japanese drill sergeant called his platoon to attention so earnestly that his voice broke and the whole outfit burst into laughter. There was nothing for the sergeant to do but grin and bear it. For this was no ordinary bunch of boots, supposed to tremble at a drill instructor's every whim. The 70 young men in ill-fitting fatigues who stumbled through close-order drill at an army camp near Tokyo were all employees of the Tokyo Mutual Life Insurance Co. Their Taiken Nyu-tai (draft experience) was scheduled to last exactly three days...