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...often concerned with socially unacceptable behavior were showered down on comedians and peelers indiscriminately. The audience, one performer said after the show, "was just like any other night." Teen-agers glanced furtively around, making certain that no one they knew saw them; one old man called the burlesque his "homestead" where he had come once a week for forty years...
...with green coupons." Elvis thoughtfully replies: "Only girls." The girls may or may not be right, but for one reason or another people pay good money to see Elvis Presley pictures. In this one, which is slightly better than most, Elvis plays a Georgia redneck who stakes out a homestead on state land in Florida. He is weak in the head but strong in the arm. When the state highway department tries to have him evicted, he stubbornly stands his ground. When some gamblers try to scare him out, he knocks their heads together like dice. And when the Southern...
...invention of snowmaking machines has brought skiing even to such stately summering places as Virginia's Homestead hotel. At Cataloochee Ranch in North Carolina, man-made snow brings skiers from as far away as St. Petersburg...
...then all at once, the boredom is gone and the "hostiles" are there. They pounce on an isolated homestead, kill the men, rape and kill the women. The captain sends out a patrol commanded by a youthful officer who has just seen the elegant lieutenant, merely for the hell of it, steal his girl. With all the suption gone out of him, he blunders when he bivouacs and his troop is wiped...
...from Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, because he had not completed-or even started-high school. Classified as a "hardship case" (he was helping to support his parents and eight brothers and sisters), Jones gave his bonus to his family and headed for the Cardinals' spring training camp at Homestead. Fla.. where he worked out under the watchful eye of a farm system manager, Al Unser. "He would run until he got tired." says Unser. "and then he'd quit. We finally talked him into the idea that it was necessary for him to run a little harder...