Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrival of U.S. advisers and the appointment of Major General Tran Van Minh to succeed Ky as commander have changed some of that. The Americans have taught aircraft care and flight safety. Minh, who works at a nine-phone desk but writes poetry in off-hours, wants his pilots to continue their sociability, "especially with the ladies," but to be disciplined when airborne. The improvement has raised the limited hope that some day, when the fighting is finally scaled down, the South Vietnamese will be able to carry their own in the air as well as on the ground...
...street fight etiquette, and Jimmy Breslin capturing the real Joe Namath. "Namath was shaking his head," wrote Breslin. " 'Boy, that was a real memory job. You know, I only was with that girl one night? We had a few drinks and we balled and I took her phone number and that's it. Only one night with the girl. And I come up with the right name. A real memory job.' " Personal reporting is New York's forte, but it has other assets as well-a young, eager staff, a fresh appearance, competent critics...
...next hour, people woke up and milled around the first floor, where they had earlier agreed to make their non-violent stand against the police. They sang radical songs, received wet pieces of linen and instructions for their use against tear gas, and the phone numbers of lawyers who had agreed to defend those arrested...
...bust at 3:40 a.m. For the next hour, people woke up and milled around the first floor, where they had earlier agreed to make their stand against the police. They sang radical songs, received wet pieces of linen and instructions for there use against tear gas, and the phone numbers of lawyers who had agreed to defend those arrested...
...play is the story of a hyperbolically typical middle-class New York family that has seen all its time-honored moral standards eroded by the endless stream of "little murders" (snipings in the street, air pollution, obscene phone calls, power failures) that make up that existence that passes for life in the sixties. The father, Carol Newquist (played by Vincent Gardenia), asserts his masculinity by claiming to be able to spot fags "a mile away"--yet is paranoid about his first name and fails to notice that his own son is a raving queer. His daughter, Patsy (Carole Shelly...