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...President's order is apparently intended to correct growing mental and physical deficiencies in youth. An independent report, released Saturday, estimated that one-third of the nation's youth reaching 18 would be found unfit for military induction...
EAST SIDE/WEST SIDE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Carol Rossen portrays a prostitute found unfit to care for her child in a repeat of this series' best episode...
...golf cart to spin around the Paramount lot with Jackie Gleason, 47, last June. Awaaaay they went, recalled Gleason's former manager, in a suit he just filed. The only problem was that Gleason was "intoxicated from excessive use of alcoholic beverages," was thus "an incompetent and unfit driver of golf carts." At last, after careening all over, the cart overturned. Bullets (150 Ibs.) fell on the ground; the Great One (290 Ibs.) and the golf cart (500 Ibs.) fell on Bullets. This resulted in "severe and profound shock to the nervous system" of Bullets and also gave...
Iced Tea & Bourbon. Bill's drinking was such common gossip in Oxford that when he tried to organize a Boy Scout troop one winter he was denounced as unfit by the minister of the Baptist Church. But most of his drunks, says Brother John, were just play acting. He would go for weeks without taking a drink and then a call would come from his wife Estelle that it was time to come and "sober Billie up." That job usually fell to Mother Faulkner, a tiny, fiercely energetic woman who understood Billie's desire to be waited...
...formed and brought into existence by the Constitution and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen? We think not. On the contrary, [Negroes] were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings . . . altogether unfit to associate with the white race...