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...street warfare; at others, they matched the rioters in reckless violence with club and gun. Once, after losing a sniper in the dark, a squad of infuriated cops turned on some Negro bystanders, caught one unarmed boy of about twelve and beat him. Negro officers on the whole seemed rougher than their white colleagues. Typical was one Negro patrolman, who felled a rioter and then struck him savagely on the head with his nightstick. Bleeding profusely, the man screamed: "Brother, brother, I'll kill you, brother...
Baseball is a tough game for a man to break into. It's rougher still for a team. The New York Mets tried it in 1962-and produced a tenth-place comedy act. That same year the Houston Astros pranced onto the field (as the Colt .45s), and it looked like the same burlesque. They wound up eighth, ninth, ninth and ninth, just above the Amazin' Mets. But last week, with the season almost three months old, the Astros were the surprise of the National League, orbiting way up there in fourth place. Astronomical...
...that fan sticks around for a while, he'll see rugby as a game that has incorporated the rougher aspects of football and soccer and bound them with a tradition of sportsmanship both on and off the field...
Gonzalez did not have a strenuous first day, defeating Rochester's Steve Horowitz, 15-8, 15-8, 15-7, and Toronto's Steve McCarthy, 3-1. But today Gonzalez will find the going a little rougher against Princeton's Walt Smedley and Burt...
Today's humor may not be much rougher than it was on the American frontier, but it has shed its inhibitions in full public view. Sex is no longer a taboo topic; it is, in fact, one of the commonest. Humor has not only been firmly entrenched in the bedroom, but is increasingly being brought into the bathroom. Even caustic Cartoonist Jules Feiffer says: "It's astounding what's allowable today." The gentle comedies that once titillated the town have been replaced by such farces as What's New Pussycat? and Kiss Me, Stupid, in which...