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...Team racing is much more exciting than regular racing," sailor Abbott Reeve said Monday. "You try and hurt the other guy as much as possible by making him sail where he doesn't want to go, while your teammates cross the finish line, and then you try to get back before...

Author: By Bradford B. Kopp, | Title: Sailors Win Fowle Trophy | 11/4/1970 | See Source »

...grown up in New York City is supposed to be accustomed to handling street hassles. If she hasn't been kidnapped at infancy from a baby carriage parked in front of the A and P, she will still have a good chance of being accosted by a drunken sailor (probably a fag, besides), robbed, heckled, smoked out of a Midson Avenue bus by a pyromaniac lighting matches on the back seat, and altogether pinched so often and in so many strange places that if the IRT subway line could be held responsible and sued it would go bankrupt faster than...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: Paranoia Walking the Streets | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

Sobbing and Swooning. Her eyes were big and soulful. Her body was broad, her legs heavy, her voice a trombone blare. Propounding the "Foursquare Gospel," she dressed sometimes in gauzy robes that floated out behind her like angel wings. Sometimes she appeared in the uniform of a sailor, fireman or traffic cop ("Stop! You are breaking God's law!"). She illustrated her sermons with skits or pantomimes and composed oratorios for a chorus of 500. The effect of all this was hallucinogenic. Five thousand listeners gasped and sobbed and swooned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sister Aimee | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...another incident, a black guard was shot to death when a black sailor went on a wild shooting spree at Camp Tien Sha near Danang. That episode followed rioting along China Beach by black Marines and sailors brandishing M-16 rifles...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii, | Title: Bringing the War Home . . . (II) | 10/9/1970 | See Source »

...couldn't." Said another black Marine: "My ancestors said, please. Yeah, they said, please. Did they get any mercy? Why should we turn around and say, please, may I have this. Hell, no. I say start an armed revolution." "I always back a riot," said a black sailor. "Riots is good. It makes people wonder what's going on, and they come in and check...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii.), | Title: Bringing the War Home... | 10/8/1970 | See Source »

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