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Yeager's practical approach to death may have its origins in his West Virginia childhood. Not long after six-year-old Brother Roy accidentally killed his baby sister with a shotgun, Yeager's father sat the boys down and said simply, "I want to show you how to safely handle firearms." This matter-of-factness fits right in with the airman's cocky stoicism. Violent death may be inevitable, but problem solving goes on until the moment of impact. There is also a sixth sense of machinery that Yeager calls his "knowledgeable feel," his love of engines and valves...
...symbol for many others. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), square-jawed and handsome, he gravitated naturally to Hollywood when he left the Navy after World War II. Henry Willson, the agent who turned Marilyn Louis into Rhonda Fleming and Arthur Gelien into Tab Hunter, thought it was appropriate that Roy Fitzgerald should become Rock Hudson, as solid as Gibraltar and as steady as the river that flows past Manhattan's towers. A series of B movies followed, and through hard work Hudson learned the craft if not the art of acting. He gave a fine performance in Giant...
...quickly interjected "are they congressmen or banks?" Kingston said he wasn?t exactly sure who the trustees were, but he would find out. He moved on to the next slide to explain that Social Security's Trust Fund would be depleted by 2042, but then 75-year-old Roy Goodman asked, "why so many different dates here? It was five years, then 10 years, now it's 2042. I don't think the government is telling people the truth about Social Security...
...floodgate of filth that's engulfed the minds and hearts and souls of America like nothing else ever has" -especially when the speaker is convicted savings-and-loan embezzler Charles Keating. It's a pleasure to watch Reems stalwartly defend his work against the ferociously righteous Roy Cohn (later to die of AIDS after a life of secret gay sex). What isn't so funny is that a Memphis jury found Reems guilty of obscenity for appearing in Deep Throat. "For the first time in U.S. history," narrator Dennis Hopper notes, "an actor had been convicted for merely playing...
...Roy Guzman found himself in an educational no-man's-land. A bright, industrious teen who came to Miami from Honduras nine years ago, he scored well enough on his SAT that he was being recruited by Stanford University. But despite the tuition aid he could have received, Guzman felt that he and his family weren't ready for the heavy financial burden of four years at a prestigious college. And despite his good grades, Guzman was worried that he wasn't ready academically either...