Word: roughneck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. William August Bartholomae, 69, onetime California oil-field roughneck, who struck it rich on an odd lot of unwanted land, becoming one of the state's richest men with oil, mining and ranching interests; by Third Wife Sara Bartholomae, 47; on grounds of cruelty; after 19 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. Settlement...
...twins-Hayley plays both-know nothing about each other; their parents separated when they were babies. Hayley the First is a demure Bostonian who lives with her mother (Maureen O'Hara); Hayley the Second is a rowdy Californian who ranches with her roughneck father (Brian Keith). The girls meet at camp, tumble to the situation, and switch places. At summer's end, Hayley the Second gets her first look at Boston and mother, and Hayley the First sees her dad. But dad is about to marry a proprietary blonde (Joanna Barnes) who plans to send her stepdaughter...
During a strike in Le Havre in 1926, a 16-year-old French Communist roughneck named Roger Riou battled cops in the streets. Thrown into reform school, seemingly incorrigible, he soon taught the Marxist gospel to 100 other inmates and then led them in an unsuccessful attempt to escape. That episode landed him in solitary confinement, manacled wrist and ankle. Last week, on Haiti's Ile de la Tortue (Turtle Island), Roger Riou was no longer fighting cops. Instead, he was ministering to the people's spiritual needs and physical ailments. The ex-kid brawler...
...Driving Me Crazy. There is a growling, brassy quality under even the floating notes, and the words and phrases are often bitten off or stretched into a kind of slurring leer, but at her best Singer Reese projects a vivid image-that of a tender roughneck who wears her heart square on her agitated chest, where it belongs...
...dawnlike light of Arctic high noon one day last week. Suddenly the direct rays of the sun, unseen for more than a month, spilled over the bleak horizon and splashed against the top of the 127-ft. derrick. Getting a nod of assent from the driller, Eskimo Roughneck Elijah Allen, 22, darted to the derrick ladder and scampered up the frosted rungs. As he neared the top, he turned his happy moonface into the thin yellow light and yelled a piercing greeting...