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Many blacks sit together in enlisted men's clubs, scorning "hillbilly" and "country and western" music, or make their way alone to smoke pot and drink beer.

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii, | Title: Bringing the War Home . . . (II) | 10/9/1970 | See Source »

Latha is a handsome woman of 38, waiting with the guile and patience of Penelope for her fractious true love, a hillbilly hell raiser named Every Dill. Many years before, Every had not only raped and robbed her but rescued her from a mental hospital into which her mean big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Midsummer Dream | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

(2 of 2) Demara, now 47, has had previous, if less official roles as Trappist monk and Skid Row evangelist. ··· Country music's Woodward Maurice ("Tex") Ritter (Hillbilly Heaven, Boll Weevil) threw a ten-gallon hat into the ring and announced his designs on the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 19, 1970 | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

Hawkins billed himself as "the king of rockabilly" (an ancestor of country rock?by rock 'n' roll out of hillbilly). Calling the members of his band The Hawks, he led them from the grubby nightspots on Toronto's Yonge Street to clip joints in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. "Those places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Down to Old Dixie and Back | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

The machinery of the story is simple. One night, drunk and excited at the sight of blood (from a razor slash on one of their wrists), four young men draw numbers from a hat and seemingly in jest agree to kill themselves in order, without revealing the pact or the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death by the Numbers | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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