Word: punks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gall. Some punk just walked up and stole this 1963 Ford station wagon, not even considering who the owner was. So Mickey Spillane, 45, had to report the theft to the Sarasota, Fla., cops. Moped he defensively: "I know what you're going to say: 'Go find it yourself.' " Gone with the car were his wife's engagement and wedding rings, his wallet, and the only manuscript of his new book, The Body Lovers. The manuscript he didn't mind. "That just means I've got to sit down and do three more days...
...From her partner, Lee Allen, she learns contest protocol: about the "horses" who drag-carry their sleeping partners around the floor with proud belligerence, and about the clowns who must check out after 1,000 hours because clowns are not supposed to win, and about the quitters who "punk out." She jitterbugs in the "sprints," scrambles for tossed coins. Tricked by the horses, taunted by sadistic ringsiders, feet lacerated, nerves shrieking, body and mind at the breaking point, June has a revelation of self in this unholy place. She finds her courage, she knows she will not break or punk...
...when the Transit Authority heard what "Terror" was about it was horrified. The play dealt brilliantly with a pair of hopped-up punks who terrorize a subway earful of early morning riders. For an hour the hoods tease, insult and frighten the passengers. Yet no one dares do anything to stop them. Finally, as one leather-jacketed jackal torments a father with a sleeping child, a young soldier rebels. "Leave those people alone," he cries, and suddenly there is a knife in the punk's hand. The other passengers simply watch as the hood closes in on the unarmed...
...sworn blood brotherhood with a group and then "squeals" on them be trusted in anything? I would not believe J. Valachi except where the truth would help him. His present action shows you are right in describing him as a "two-bit punk...
Valachi is an aging (60), two-bit punk-once a thief, a dope pusher, a willing killer for syndicate chiefs, now turned stool pigeon. Yet last week he found U.S. Senators treating him with patronizing respect. John McClellan addressed him warmly as "Joe," inquired if he wasn't tired from testifying, quickly adjourned the hearings until this week when the mug from the Mafia said he was indeed weary. In fact, Valachi's act was introduced-with some pride-by none other than Bobby Kennedy, Attorney General of the U.S. Boasted Bobby: "For the first time an insider...