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...wary men walked up to the green Cadillac: Kenneth Kan-kit Huie, 60, self-styled "unofficial mayor of Chinatown," and Tim Lok, 35, known to federal agents as "the General" for his ramrod-stiff posture. The four men?two undercover narcotics agents, and the two "connections" whom they had been trying to nail for four months?wasted no time. The agents opened the trunk of the Cadillac and showed the Chinese the contents of an olive-drab attaché case inside: $200,000 in $50 and $100 bills. Then the General led one of the agents off on a meandering excursion...
...Joshua, Joshua," shouted the crowd of 75,000 at an agricultural fair west of Kingston last week, as the tall, ramrod-straight politician with the familiar features began to speak. Many Jamaicans once regarded their former Prime Minister, Norman Manley-who died in 1969-as a kind of Moses who helped lead them to the promised land of independence ten years ago. Now they see his son as an appropriate successor. Addressing the massive rally. Prime Minister Michael Manley, 48, set forth what has become a chief theme of his young government: "What freedom really confers is the opportunity...
Simon was disgruntled at hour's end, having spent his energies for a piddling crowd. But he sparked up by the time he hit Mass Ave the next day. He hustled his six foot four inch frame with ramrod posture through Cambridge sidewalks which could barely hold the both of us, and only for an instant lost his self-control--breaking into a half-stumble and a nervous twitch when he dropped his coat at Schoenhof's. He whisked through the Crimson building for a 30-second stop, and then went past to the Charles...
Once upon a time, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants-Puritans and the children of Puritans-clamped a code on America as tight as the pillory. Ramrod stiff with duty, tense with work ethic, the code operated splendidly on the frontier, and more or less adequately until after World War II. But then WASP "defaulted on their birthright of cussedness and irreverence" and turned into what Schrag calls the "plastic WASP." Still claiming to be the model-the only model-for a Good American, the plastic WASP has ended up a crabby tyrant of pallid respectability...
...year veteran, Cushman at 56 has the physical presence of a Leatherneck on a recruiting poster-barrel-chested, hair closely cropped, posture ramrod-straight. His distinguished fighting record reaches from Pearl Harbor to Viet Nam. In a time of cerebral officers, he views the world through the eyes of a rough Marine combat officer...