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...gather under the street lights for the shape-up: smartly dressed girls in spike heels and hopeful smiles. In the fading light, American soldiers cruise by to inspect the merchandise, pinching buttocks and tilting faces toward the light. The girls, who are known scornfully as "mooses," giggle timidly and plead: "Come on to my hooch."* But a hooch, as every G.I. in Korea knows, is not a home. More often than not, it is a roach-ridden room in a crumbling old house...
Harris's letter read in part, "The situation which is developing in Pike County resembles that which...culminated in the murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia...We plead with you to take action...
...Tevye has five unmarried daughters on his hands, a strident wife (Maria Karnilova) at his elbow, and God's voice in his inner ear. He quivers before his wife and quips with his God. He plans to arrange his daughters' marriages in the time-honored way. They plead love. "Tradition," thunders Tevye, stabbing the air with an irate prophet's forefinger and then lowering his hand like a falling leaf, in wry self-mockery. The eldest daughter marries a tailor without a sewing machine. The second follows her student-revolutionary fiance to Siberia. The third elopes with...
Daunted only slightly, Smith winged on to London, met for eight hours at No. 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home to plead his case for independence. On neither moral nor pragmatic grounds could Home agree. He still insisted that the black majority (3,700,000 v. 224,000 whites) be granted a louder voice before Britain would cut its final tie with the colony...
Negro Leader Stanley Branche stood on a box at a street corner, used a bullhorn to plead: "Please go home. Please go home. This is doing us no good." The mob answered with hoots, threw stones, bricks and bottles at him, hit him in the leg. Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. President Cecil Moore shouted: "Come out of that store! Quit looting that store!" A woman climbed atop an overturned refrigerator to yell: "Black man, do you hear me? Cecil has nothing to tell you. I'm a black woman. Let them take...