Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States. A British soldier does not spend a few years in the service as a means of learning a trade or gaining a few benefits. It is not the avenue of class mobility it has turned out to be for many Americans. It is a 21 year hitch with little future for those who did not go to Sandhurst. Sillitoe deftly analyzes the problems of a stratified society where its decaying economy constantly reinforces its rigidity...
After his Army hitch, and under the guidance of Colonel Parker, Elvis' new music was confined largely to sanctimonious spirituals and sound-track ditties off the string of brain-rotting movies he turned out, sometimes at the rate of three a year. At first, the movies-like Jailhouse Rock-tried for a little of the defiance and vitality Elvis got in his music, but such ambitions were quickly forsaken for formula. Elvis beefed about the scripts, which he once contemptuously dismissed as "travelogues," but Parker could point to the fact that each of the movies turned a profit-often...
...cared for, dispensed lavish gifts. He gave away luxury cars-particularly the Cadillacs he doted on-like gumdrops. After a while, though, the cronies became heavies-bodyguards, procurers-and the gifts bribes to buy loyalty, or silence. He courted a girl, Priscilla Beaulieu, he had met during his Army hitch. He persuaded her father to let her come over from Germany to live and, when he got out of the Army, to go to school in Memphis. She was not yet 15 when they met. They got married when she was 21, and a year later, in 1968, they...
Jewett sums it all up by saying that perhaps Brown could have pulled the whole thing off if the College had let him change his name without asking for legal papers. There is one hitch, however--Brown wasn't that intelligent. Jewett says he had already flunked out of another college during the year between high school and Harvard and seemed to be headed in the same general direction at Harvard...
...sputters on. Guerrilla raids continue in the northern portion of Namibia, which South Africa has administered (as South West Africa) since 1920. Under international pressure, South Africa is now trying to set Namibia free, but only under a moderate government that would cause the South Africans no trouble. The hitch is that the only Namibian political group recognized by the United Nations is SWAPO (for South West African People's Organization). But SWAPO, a radical guerrilla group backed by Angola, is excluded from Pretoria's independence plans, and has vowed to fight until it can bring about...