Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take it any more," returned from retirement just long enough to win $7,500 in the Los Angeles Open. Art Wall, who had not won a tournament since 1960, collected the $4,000 big money at San Diego. "Champagne Tony" Lema, 29, who hardly qualifies as a hardship case ($67,112 last year), won the $5,800 Crosby first prize. But then there was Juan ("Chi Chi") Rodriguez, 28, 120 Ibs. of sugar cane from Puerto Rico, who used to play with ladies' clubs. All he did was whomp everybody for $7,500 in San Francisco's Lucky...
...inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands. The main source of Negro discontent is economic hardship. Fortunately, this is the one area where progress seems most likely?more and better jobs for Negroes are on the way. Already, 115 firms' have joined the Plans for Progress program backed by the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Of 60,000 new employees they hired in the past...
...raid abed with Jeanne Moreau. Hamilton pairs off with Elke Sommer, a free-living German girl whose parents approve of her enterprise. Peppard finds respite with Melina Mercouri, a black market wheeler-dealer. None can compare to the girl next door, of course, but war brings all manner of hardship...
...charges of failing to register a personal weapon-a pistol. Then he was court-martialed again for "using provocative words" to a noncommissioned officer. Oswald wanted out of the Corps. Claiming that his mother was ill and that her hospital insurance had lapsed, he applied for and got a hardship discharge in September of 1959. He was assigned to the Marine Corps inactive Reserve, but instead of going home he boarded a ship for the Soviet Union with the $1,600 he had somehow saved. Granted admittance to Russia, he told U.S. reporters in Moscow that he felt...
Every student applying for an apartment in the fall will be required to present a letter from his dean affirming that he is a "hardship case." Such students will be virtually assured of getting apartments in the Project...