Word: run
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Charley Fever. This hell away from hell is run by Johnny Williams (Nathan George), a black pimp who is as cold and dangerous as a switchblade. His whores saunter in and out between tricks, and the white one loves him. Johnny wants to challenge the Mafia, which is crimping his style, by assembling a "Black Mafia" to rule his own turf. An ex-con father figure who has gone straight (Walter Jones) warns Johnny that he has contracted "Charley fever" -that is, trying to beat the white man at his own game. The fever inevitably proves fatal, and finally...
...turbulence began with a modest run on the wobbly franc after Charles de Gaulle resigned and speculators became convinced that France would order a long-anticipated devaluation (TIME, May 9). Then, last week, the attack on the franc turned into a far more disruptive rush to buy West German marks. Convinced that economically potent Germany must soon raise the official value of its robust currency, speculators and more conservative businessmen all over the world swapped their money for marks in the expectation of a quick profit. A speculator who converted $2,500,000 into marks, for example, stood...
...other writers were persuaded to get off Mr. Davis' literary turf. The publishers were only too glad to let him run on for 424 pages, including three genealogical tables and 19 pages of bibliographical notes-as though the Bouviers were either highly significant or vastly entertaining...
Dartmouth is the only undefeated team in the EIBL, and Yale trails the Indians and Cornell with a 4-2-1 record. In retrospect, Harvard could be a contestant for the league title if it weren't for two bad first innings. Two home runs in the first against Army and a seven-run explosion at Brown cost the Crimson the league race...
Yale's Frank Shorter and Steve Bittner took first place in two of the three distance events in the Heps, and Shorter also finished second behind Harvard's Roy Shaw in a photo-finish mile. Shaw will run in the mile again Saturday and will team up with Keith Colburn in an effort to stop Bittner in the 880-yard run...