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...Merseyside gangs were the toughest in Liverpool-and in Liverpool in those days, all the gangs were tough. The chaps would hang around street corners showing off their haircuts, and whenever outsiders invaded their turf, they would step right out and start a rumble. Today most of the old belligerence is gone. The gangs have spawned rock 'n' roll quartets like amoebae, and the boys have swapped their bicycle chains for guitars...
...blocks from the home he has occupied for nearly 40 years, and Monk serenely regards the choice of the site as a favor to him from the city fathers, a personal convenience, along with the new bank and the other refinements that urban renewal has brought to his old turf. The neighborhood, in Manhattan's West 60s, is called San Juan Hill. It is one of the oldest and most decent of the city's Negro ghettos. Monk's family settled there in 1924, coming north from Rocky Mount, N.C., where Thelonious was born...
...cars, and are lovely by night in sheer, gold-encrusted saris. The new and old rich frequent the marble-floored Willingdon Sports Club, where vegetarian diners are discreetly noted by chalk marks on the backs of their chairs, and gather on Sundays for horse racing at the Western India Turf Club, where a sign at the entrance displays an untypical bit of Bombay intolerance. It reads: "South Africans not admitted...
Take Kelso. In five years the great gelding has won 31 races and $1,581,702. But Kelso does not like grass. Last week he ran for the third time in the $150,000 Washington D.C. International over 1½ miles on the turf. And, for the third time, he finished second. The horse that beat him: Mrs. Marion duPont Scott's Mongo-a thoroughbred that likes grass better than dirt...
Yovicain played single-wing football in college at Gettysburg, and is singularly successful in defending against the formation. He has even installed certain single-wing techniques--especially blocking patterns--into the Harvard offense.TOM BILODEAU (18), churns the turf as he cuts around end in the Dartmouth game. PAUL BARRINGER (82) and JOHN HOFFMAN (65) move quickly to block out JOEL FELDMAN (45) and GERRY LaMONTAGNE...