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...shaven mathematics teachers, the Art Deco furniture-all preserved through the years an unwitting museum of redolent nostalgia. The scaled-down desks, the dwarfed nation of students, the knee-high urinals-all attested to the passage of time. The clots of eighth-grade hoydens with their manila complexions and pink eraser thighs attested to my eternal puerility. Most of the boys, however, still on the verge of their powerful pubescence, still four feet eleven, flitted unsuspectingly down the corridors like little frightened birds...

Author: By Richard D. Rosen, | Title: Polities Junior High School | 5/19/1970 | See Source »

...Pink Prince. In the political struggle for the loyalties of the nation's 7,000,000 people, Lon Nol is at least holding his own; at best, he is solidifying his position. He has, in fact, received an unexpected assist from Sihanouk. In Peking last week, the deposed Prince formally set up his own Cambodian government in exile, complete with a twelve-member Cabinet and a platform ineluding items like abolition of polygamy. His self-styled New Royal Government of National Union won instant recognition from several Communist countries, prompting Sihanouk to quip that, as a French-educated aristocrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Ten Days--or Ten Years | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...Kennedy was duly courteous, though Jackie never bore much affection for the big, earthy Texan. He described her appearance after the assassination as "a tragic thing to observe. Here was this delicate, beautiful lady, always elegant, always fastidious. And what that morning was a beautiful, unspoiled, nicely pressed pink garment that was the last word in fashion and style and looks . . . and she still had the same garment on, but it was streaked and caked and soiled throughout with her husband's blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: A Mellower L.BJ. | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

JACKSON: First, fascism must be seen as a sickness, and not as a means, to be dealt with by psychotherapists and not by white politicians. That's the first thing that must be understood. Pink-skin worship is pathological, and a person is sick who is threatened by people of another color. So racism at that level is a white problem...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii, | Title: Getting It All Together: Part II | 5/6/1970 | See Source »

...sharp dresser on the team, Owen, almost shocked his teammates by playing in long pants. Just before he got on the course, however, Cooch whipped off his trousers, revealing a lovely pair of pink shorts. "Cooch has about 20 pairs of shorts, but he likes to play in his pink ones." teammate Purdy said last night...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: Golf Team Nips Cornell for 7th Win | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

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