Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City subway is cold, and spooky with shadows. Water drips from the vaulted ceiling into small pools beside the tracks below. At one end the platform a rusting steel bridge leads to the street elevator. It is past midnight. A well-dressed man walks nervously up and down, a few steps at a time, waiting for a train. He knows he is a target and is plainly scared. The elevator descends. The man sees six teen-age blacks sweeping toward him like a pack of wolves. First they literally sniff him up and down, then they urinate...
...emerge from the shadows at the other end of the dark platform. They are silent. But at the sight of them the wolves leave their victim, disappearing at a run down the track toward the next station, their shouted obscenities echoing back through the tunnel. As the Curtis rescued man tries to say thanks, his words are drowned in the roar of an oncoming train. He gets aboard, shakily waving one hand at his young rescuers in a half salute...
...Tony Mayo, 18, a black who never knew his father, lost his mother when he was still a toddler, was then raised by relatives in one of the grimmest sections in any American city. "I'm nearly a black belt," says Mayo. "I can disarm a man carrying a knife. I've developed a spiritual eye. I can feel you behind me, I can feel your vibes." Arnaldo Salinas, 18, another ghetto child, wants to be an FBI man. "There's not so many Puerto Ricans in the FBI, I think," he says, with a grin gleaming...
...individual leaders after the first 18 were Dartmouth's sweet-swinging number one man Joe "Ugly" Henley and UConn's John Collich, who blazed in tied at 72. Dartmouth's number two man, bon vivant Gordie Daisley, missed the tourney after punching his hand through a window in a fraternity frazzle...
...simply not because I can vouch for it, not because I necessarily agree with it, because it is indeed a criticism of our policy, just to lay one more strand of complexity before you. I would like to quote from a letter that has just recently come from a man called Howard Shomer, who was formerly a dean of the Divinity School at Chicago and now is head of the Social Responsibility in Investments for the United Church Boards in the United Church of Christ. He says, he's writing to Tony Lewis of the New York Times...