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...train. When the token seller cursed them as "Spanish trash," Pinero let loose with a few oaths of his own. Picked up by a transit cop on a charge of harassment, Miguel got rather more attention than he had bargained for. A marijuana joint found in his dungarees pocket earned him a minor charge of carrying drugs...
...wits between Shaw and speeding cars and trucks. On back roads, under a sultry sun, he frequently got enmired in melting tar. Also, everywhere, there are dogs, yelping and nipping at the rolling hero as if he were absconding with the Alpo. He carries a rosary in his left pocket. "I do pray a lot when I'm out there on the highways," he says. "Anything can happen out there." Vehicles are continually bearing down on him, and eluding them requires a special dexterity and alertness. Says Shaw: "Anyone who thinks it's all fun out there...
After working his way through Whitman College, Douglas determined to enter Columbia Law School and rode freight trains east, arriving in New York City with a properly legendary 6? in his pocket. A brilliant student who was anguished at finishing second in his class, he briefly tried a job as a Wall Street lawyer, then moved on to Columbia and Yale, teaching law. Professor Douglas thought most of his students were "spoiled brats." His legal articles on high finance prompted Joseph P. Kennedy to bring him to Washington, D.C., in 1934. He soon succeeded Kennedy as chairman of the Securities...
...Atlanta, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and they been pickin' up real great in the last couple of years. These toys are made by authentic local Blue Ridge people, entirely in the home. There isn't no factory. They can make most of em with just a pocket knife, in a little shed beside the house or just inside." Are they packaged at home too, or in a central place? "Well, no, we got a little place near Beach Creek, a central place where they're packaged." And do the people gather the materials or what? "Well they either gather...
...never gonna open. You're mass-producing things and you never see the end result of it. How are you gonna get excited about pullin' steel? It's the nonrecognition by other people ... [A fellow with a college degree] saw a book in my back pocket one time and he was amazed. He walked up to me and he said, 'You read?' I said, 'What do you mean, I read?' He said, 'All these dummies read the sports pages around here. What are you doing with a book?' I got pissed...