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...marchers entered Philadelphia, a button-cute blonde in an ice blue Mustang convertible roared straight at the column, then braked to a stop. "You better get knives, you white niggers," she snarled at white marchers. "You're gonna need 'em." A pickup truck careened down the column as a white man in the passenger's seat flailed at the marchers with a club. When the demonstrators knelt to pray, they were sprayed by a white tough with a hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The New Racism | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...fear that drinking, dancing or a little poker will bring down the wrath of Allah-or the government. Out in the desert, the country's ever-wandering Bedouins, who comprise 80% of Saudi Arabia's 3,500,000 people, are swapping their camels for Land Rovers and pickup trucks, and-thanks to a government well-drilling program that guarantees them water-are abandoning their nomadic ways and settling into community life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia: Revolution from the Throne | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...saddle and a steering tiller, propelled himself by pushing off with his legs and coasting. When he rode it into town, the citizens of Karlsruhe hooted and chased him off the streets. One hundred and fifty years later, the plight of the bicyclist is still dire. "People in pickup trucks throw beer cans at us," says Washington, D.C., Cyclist Ray Matthews Jr. "Motorists keep trying to push us off the road. We have to face continuous abuse and mistreatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: The Forgotten Outdoorsmen | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...group is Tinker (Oliver Reed), a street photographer and sex mechanic, who snaps pictures of new arrivals, his way of tagging every new bird on the scene. He and his cronies nest down with most of them, though their conquests seem singularly joyless. Typical, for Tinker, is one giddy pickup who starts nattering about love the minute she gets her clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: British Beach Party | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

Sersich struck out four in three innings while allowing only one hit to pickup the win. Lincoln retired six straight men in the last two innings and was Box Score ab r h rbl Dockery, if 3 1 0 0 Neville, cf 3 1 0 0 Grate, ss 3 1 1 0 Hootstein, rf 4 1 3 2 Tobin, 3b 3 0 1 2 Welz, 1b 4 0 0 0 Houston, 2b 4 0 1 0 O'Donnell, c 4 0 0 0 Melfa, p 1 0 0 0 Lord, ph 1 0 0 0 Sersich...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Edges Springfield; Hootstein's 3 Hits Pace 4-3 Win | 4/13/1966 | See Source »

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