Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A tarnished film queen, Shelley Winters, flips over a couple of surfers who plan to hang ten over her $3,000,000 jewel collection in "Wipe-out." Repeat...
...remedy complaints. The mayor has no illusions that the palliatives, such as garbage cleanups and street cleaning, will make a vast permanent difference, but he senses that they give residents hope and spirit. The slums, in turn, usually respond with electric excitement whenever he appears. Older men and women hang out of their windows, children clutch at his hand, and teen-agers-usually the troublemakers-tousle his hair, heckle him good-naturedly, challenge him to a ball game...
...strength has not noticeably disheartened the Viet Cong. To Americans, who are often troubled by a feeling that "our Vietnamese don't fight as hard as their Vietnamese," the Viet Cong's motivations and methods have long had an aura of mystery and mystique. How and why do they hang on so persistently under constant harassment from bombs and artillery, while their manpower dwindles and their food supplies shrink? A large part of the answer was supplied when the U.S. captured a massive cache of fresh insights into the activities of an exasperatingly stubbon enemy. Last winter and spring. Operations...
...paunchy, 37-year-old promoter of pop singers, is neither big enough to be a hero nor mean enough to be an antihero-it is simply a case of the protagonist as pudding (in this case, Yorkshire). Peter Reaney is as square as Trafalgar. He dangles from familiar hang-ups: a nagging wife whom he calls Her Malevolence, a job about which he feels guilty, and a loathing for the contemporary English way of life. His conversation is modishly cynical: "Take to the boats, lads, and let the women drown...
Clyde Stout is a teen-ager who works in a small-town gas station, worships his Chevy and a hard-hearted local girl. One day he discovers a unique inner resource: he can hang by his hands for two, three, four minutes at a stretch. A local gambler begins to make book on him, but "Hanger" sees his talent only as a means for buying new and shiny presents for his two loves. In the end, he loses the girl, is cheated of his winnings, gets drafted, sells his car, and shrugs. In this gentle first novel, told with...