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...toward Los Angeles. From his window seat, the black man gazed down at the shadowed outlines of the Appalachians, then leaned back against a pillow. In the dimmed cabin light, his dark, impassive face seemed enlivened only by his big, shiny, compelling eyes. Suddenly, the plane shuddered in a pocket of severe turbulence. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned a wisp of a smile to his companion and said: "I guess that's Birmingham down below...
...actually stand five feet four inches in socks, I have never objected to being ribbed about my size. Your pet word, however, strikes me as inappropriate as it carries a connotation of the monstrous and stunted. Let me suggest that such phrases as "smallish," "minute," "miniature" and even "pocket-size" Billy Rose would be considerably more appetizing. Of course, if your mind is made up, I assure you that I would rather be labeled "dwarfish" than not be mentioned in your splendid magazine at all. BILLY ROSE New York City...
...last month, Princeton, Stanford and Yale Universities have announced huge increases in financial aid, making a pitch for the pocket-books of America's top high school students...
...clearly datesfrom an era long past. In the foreground, thepainting crudely depicts a scene from "TheHustler," with vaguely recognizable likenesses ofJackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats and Paul Newman'sEddie Felsin. At the middle table in the painting,three ruddy-faced Irish fellows contemplatesinking the eight-ball in the corner pocket. Themural distinguishes the setting as undeniablySully':, jammed with more spectators than players,in the background, about 30 onlookers take in theaction, a sort of potpourri of capablestick-handlers and nuclear families. On the rightside of the mural, at a lone table far away fromthe main event, two black men shoot...
Patricia A. Clahar '98 agreed. "I have a couple of jobs, actually, but [the pay from psychology experiments] is pocket cash," she said...