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...Hoffa built a great mountain, His enemies started cavin' in Jim just smiled, and shook his head...
What transpired at both meetings so shook the Negro civil rights movement that Dr. Martin Luther King, the best known and most popular of the rights leaders, felt obliged to warn that the movement is "very, very close" to a permanent split over the issue of black power, urged civil rights leaders to patch up their differences before it is too late...
Eisenstein's "Ten Days that Shook the World," and Jean Vigo's "Zero for Conduct...
...private man have fused and become virtually indistinguishable; his handsome wife Marion complains, only half in jest, that even at home he will not answer a question without clearing his throat and buttoning his coat. When approached by a streetwalker late one night in Manhattan, the Senator introduced himself, shook her hand and proceeded to solicit her vote. He loves his eminence and supports it with a sober single-mindedness matched by few, if any, of his colleagues...
...accepted an offer of $85 million from Mecom. In return, Mecom was to get the Chronicle, the well-located Chronicle Building and Rice Hotel, and a 30% controlling interest in the Texas National Bank of Commerce, second largest in town. Mecom put up $1,000,000 in cash and shook hands on the deal-which is the way he usually seals a bargain...