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...Says his trainer, Dan Florio: "Even his wife can't go upstairs to his room." In his tiny, pink-walled room, equipped only with necessary furniture, a crucifix and a certificate naming him an honorary Fairfield County deputy sheriff, Patterson gets up at 6 a.m. He puts on khaki pants a leather jacket, paratrooper boots and a cream-colored cap, runs from three to five miles before breakfast. He chops wood, skips rope, works for hours on the bags. In the dance-floor ring, he takes out his frustrations on his sparring partners, particularly a pug named Ed Bunyan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Life at La Ronda | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

sideburns. His name mellowed with absence, and some people cast a friendlier eye on the new image: a clean-cut kid in khaki, his pelvis at parade rest. Last week ABC's Frank Sinatra Timex Show spent more than a quarter of a million dollars to welcome Elvis home and performed a highly useful service: it reminded the forgetful just how dreadful Elvis really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: One of the Worst | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...winning everywhere," declared one insurgent in the khaki uniform of the territorial militia. "We don't give a damn for politics...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: De Gaulle Meets With Colleagues, May Assume Dictatorial Powers; President Scores Castro Regime | 1/27/1960 | See Source »

...wooed with aid from both the Soviets and the U.S. Even as Ike's plane winged over the mountains, an Afghan squadron of Russian-made MIGs took off to escort him toward Kabul, and Ike landed at an airfield built by Russians. There, in the freezing morning, khaki-clad King Mohammed Zahir greeted the President and his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: American Image | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...school desegregation decision,* Circuit Judge Sebe Dale, 62, last week empaneled the Pearl River County grand jury, charged the jurors to "go into the jury room like men, do your duty, come out like men and keep your mouths shut." With 23 cases to consider, the khaki-clad farmers and paper-mill workers returned 17 indictments. Notably missing: indictment of lynch-law executioners of Mack Charles Parker, Negro rape suspect dragged from the unguarded Poplarville jail last April and shot to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: On Behalf of Lynch Law | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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