Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Partridge started out busking with pretty much the same motives in mind. At 15, he admits, he did not have the slightest idea what he wanted to do, and he left home because he was "a bit flighty." His first job was burgling. From that he graduated to ice cream salesman, crane driver, and 45 other different jobs (by his count). He now has seven children and is married to the mother of two of them. "When I'm rich enough," he says, "I hope to get all my kids and their mothers into one house with my wife...
...persuasive as a busker too. Starting out with just a guitar, he gained attention by becoming a one-man band, simultaneously playing a kazoo, tambourine and drum, in addition to the guitar. "He really busked in style," says one admirer. "He used to arrive in a taxi and go home afterward the same way." At his peak, Partridge made $300 a week...
Outside his home ground, Zapata was frequently regarded as an obstinate savage by the succession of national leaders who rose and fell in the bloody welter of an inconclusive revolution. What he and his people wanted was set down with forceful simplicity in the Plan de Ayala, the catechism of Zapatismo and a landmark document in the history of Mexico's agrarian reform. Perhaps the most important point in the plan was the one that called for the surrender of one-third of hacienda lands to the farmers...
Sylvia, a single girl from the Bronx on her way to old-maidhood, ostensibly wants more then anything to leave home, but needs her family too much to part ways. And she wants love and experience and life and a lover--if he'll marry her after...
...inconsistency of Williams' performances testifies to the tremendous advantage of the home court in squash. The temperatures vary considerably from court to court, and to a large extent dictate the style of play. In a hot court the ball bounces higher; thus drop shots are less effective and the points tend to be longer. With Harvard playing away matches at Navy, Penn, and Princeton, coach Jack Barnaby has been drilling the team on long points with emphasis on stamina rather than finesse...