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...very first game, Hayes cut down New York Cornerback Dick Lynch with a vicious block. "I didn't know you could hit that hard," said Lynch. Bob replied: "Well, you're lyin' on the ground, ain't you?" Last week he got a typical rookie's razzing from Washington's Johnny Sample: every time he tried to block Sample, the defensive man would jump aside and slap Bob's plastic helmet with his palm...
Invisible or not, the poor are real. Fifteen of them live in two rooms in one Atlanta building, where they cannot even make love in private. "I ain't got no stove in the basement and I ain't got no stove in the kitchen," says a Harlem woman who lives in a building jammed with whores, rats and babies. "I ain't got no paint and I ain't got no windows and I ain't got no providements. I keep the place clean just so the doctor can come in, and some...
...plenty of people defined as poor by the Government do not think of themselves that way. Says a Houston cleaning woman: "I've got three kids at home, and I raised them on less than $2,000 a year, and I'm proud of it. You ain't poor until your spirit goes, and I think it goes if you keep on taking handouts." One impoverished ex-miner in Pennsylvania has a freezer loaded with vegetables from his backyard garden-and a shotgun in the kitchen to pepper the pants of any welfare worker who wants...
...their own complaints. Says one: "The kids want to see Disneyland; instead she goes to the art museum. They want to take boat rides at MacArthur Park, so she takes them to the Hollywood Bowl. She's always talking about 'structured programs'-but she forgets these ain't 'structured' kids...
...over there 'bout a hundred yards. Nothin' to worry about." He took off his helmet wiped his face. "You know, we Airborne, we like to get things done real fast, get in there quick and out quick killin' as we go. Here in Viet Nam there ain't no hurrying. We send five hundred men out on squad-sized patrols every day back at base. And we get nothing. Maybe this time...