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...greatest mistake black people have made is always apologizing and begging and appeasing. There ain't nothing wrong with being black...
...Tony Oliva, 25, just about the luckiest hitter in baseball-and close to the best. In 1964, as a baby-faced Cuban farm lad who spoke practically no English ("Tony talks so bad," cracked Fellow Cuban Zoilo Versalles, the Twins' shortstop, "that he even says 'ain't' in Spanish"). Outfielder Oliva hit 32 home runs and batted .323-thus becoming the first rookie ever to win the American League's batting championship. Last year, playing with a bad knee and a painfully bruised hand, he drove in 98 runs, led the Twins to the American...
...survived. A few hours later, a chaplain arrived for a special Mass. "The smell of death was still in the air," Pablo recalls. "Spent shells were all around. And the blood had been rain-washed pink." Two days later, Pablo and Glaspie volunteered for another helicopter-infantry assault. "We ain't unlucky," Glaspie shrugged. "This is just...
...properly out of joint. He took a lengthy driver's course in the chariot for Ben-Hur, polished an English accent with a speech teacher and nightly tapings for seven weeks before Khartoum. "Just once," he admits, "I'd like a role in which I can say ain...
...father, a warm-hearted Cherokee Indian, dies of rabbit fever. Desperate, she seeks in nature the tenderness she needs, and imagines the lost meaning of her life in bizarre epiphanies: a glimpse of flowers growing in a dead mule, an encounter with an albino Negro boy who "ain't got biddie brains in his head...