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...borne most of the leadership burden of the civil rights struggle and has the technical and professional know-how that is indispensable in preparing other Negroes to pass through the doors now opening. At the CORE convention, middle-class Negroes were derided as ''black-power brokers," "handkerchief heads," and "Dr. Thomases" (Uncle Toms with attaché cases), and moderate Negro preachers like Dr. King were called "chicken-eating preachers...
...little boy, he grew into a gentle, somewhat toothy, thin-chested little man, who loved nothing better than to go splashing around for specimens for his marine-biology collection. Unlike his bold and high-living grandfather, Emperor Meiji, who used to select his bed partner by dropping a silk handkerchief in front of a court concubine, Hirohito became a happy family man and refused to take a concubine, even after his Empress gave him four daughters in a row (the fifth child...
...generally black-marketed in impregnated sugar cubes, costing from $2.50 to $5 for 100 micrograms, enough for an eight-to ten-hour trip. Another way of transporting small quantities is to mix them in water, soak the solution up in a handkerchief and let it dry-to be cut up later into squares, which LSD users chew. LSD is hard to track down because the compound is colorless, tasteless and odorless, and so potent that a gram, equal to one million micrograms, or 10,000 trips, could be stashed in a single cigarette. So far, illegal LSD is manufactured largely...
...give us the cabbage, they must take off their trousers and thank us for our kindness." Yeh soon had all her clothes taken off. Chou refused to shed his clothes, whereupon Yang and his soldiers cut his belt in two with a scythe and laughed heartily. Yeh used a handkerchief to cover the lower part of her body. When the victims began to shiver with the cold, Yang cried out: "You can warm up by running around the basketball court once!" [Yang was later arrested and tried for "foolish, ridiculous actions...
Before noticing the presence of the pocket handkerchief and the absence of stripes on the sleeves, I would have sworn your example of avant-garde fashion [Feb. 25] was photographed in a Navy exchange. The Double-B look is certainly nothing...