Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paying Back. When the rebels tried to extend the strike to Havana, they bumped squarely into two pillars of the Batista regime-solid prosperity and a tough, bull-necked labor leader named Eusebio Mujal, 44. As secretary-general of the Confederation of Cuban Workers (C.T.C.), Mujal bosses 1,200,000 workers, half the total labor force, and he bosses them for Batista. Guarded by a cordon of bully boys in open-necked shirts, Mujal explained his stand bluntly last week: "People who treat labor well deserve well of labor...
...ever to sail out of the U.S. Naval Academy on a leaky autumn afternoon. They seemed determined to scuttle all the pregame dope. Tradition would have had them decked out in white jerseys-a nice counterpoint to Army's ominous black. They trotted out in powdery pastel blue. Tough as they were, they were supposed to have a rough time with Army's roughriding halfbacks, Pistol Pete Dawkins and Bullet Bob Anderson. But the first time Army got the ball, the two highly-touted cadets were tossed for a combined loss of seven yards...
...terse, well-constructed character study of a high school hoodlum. Arrested for assaulting a fellow-member of the school's basketball team, he is subjected to a subtly-conceived interrogation by a pair of police detectives, who finally reveal the frightened boy hiding behind the facade of a tough guy. Kopit's point may be a modest one, but he makes it with skill and ends up with the most theatrically accomplished undergraduate play produced here in recent years...
...Kennedys competed among themselves and against the world. It was sometimes a little tough on the world. One of the most realistic accounts of life with the Kennedys was written by David Hackett, a weary weekend visitor. Excerpts from Rules for Visiting the Kennedys...
Making it tough for the panelists is the job of Producer Gil Fates, a sort of inverted Diogenes, who must first find "people everyone has heard of but no body has seen," but whose even harder search is for people adept at lying. Fates keeps enormous files of newspaper clips about odd characters, and complete cards on everyone who has ever entered his office...