Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife Gail and a nine-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter in Victorville, Calif. Last Thursday afternoon, some U.S. Marine friends ran into him at a small airport at Phucat, just north of Quinhon in the Red-infested Binh Dinh province. It had been a rough day, McAllister said; his plane had suffered more hits than usual from ground fire...
...Gospel who came here would do well to stack their picket signs and get back in the pulpit." Integration, he said, "will solve no social problems; it will probably create them. It is just one of those things we have got to live through. It may be pretty rough living." But rough as it had been, he sighed, Selma's whites had "shown unbelievable restraint...
Verbally, and for the best of causes, she has ridden as rough as daddy-and the ride's not over. As her Negro chauffeur drove Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 81, through placid residential Washington, he nearly collided with a taxi, whose white Southern driver jumped out, yelling: "You black s.o.b., what do you think you're doing?" At which Teddy Roosevelt's daughter rolled down her window, fastened the cab driver with a cool blue glare, and demanded: "You white s.o.b., what do you think you're doing...
...Receptionist. Unlike the 19th century European immigrants who believed that the streets of America were literally paved with gold, Gourin's émigrés know that the cobblestones are rough-but not so rough as at home. "You've got to work like a dog, do jobs that Negroes and North Africans do in France," says one returned Gourinois. "Still, practically everybody in Gourin has some friend or relative there." Each Christmas Gourin gets 10,000 greeting cards from New York-and many contain dollars...
...Africa II (see opposite page), Rivers exquisitely sketches the features of a native, then juxtaposes it with the flimsy profiles of camels off the cigarette pack and a slunky crocodile. The result is a rough estimate of a dark continent, suggestive like an ominous travel poster, but nonetheless full of color and intrigue. In Dutch Masters and Cigars II, he is producing high comedy rather than striving for high seriousness. Art to him can be puns, quipping conceits between cigars and Rembrandt. Only a delightful puff here and there separates it from thin...