Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been deliberately forgotten by the Soviets, but for a while in the '20s, Soviet historians sought in Nechaev's ideas and life a native Russian source for the brilliant success of Lenin's revolutionary theories. Since Stalin's time, he has been the No. 1 skeleton in the congested Soviet closet of historical horrors. According to Michael Prawdin, a Russian emigre living in London, Sergei Nechaev is also a "key to Bolshevism...
Only when a "Freedom Special" roared in from Deep Dixie did things get lively. The train, originating in Jacksonville, Fla., carried 785 marchers-many of them youngsters in their teens or early 20s who, as a result of their participation in Negro demonstrations, had spent time in Southern jails or carried on their bodies the scars inflicted by Southern cops. They piled off the train singing the battle hymn of the Negro's 1963 revolution, We Shall Overcome. Their spirit perked up hundreds of other Negroes still wandering aimlessly around the depot...
...unjustly accused of murder. Untranslated, the production will feature subtitles under the stage (Feb. 8). Another bit of musical miscellany is the long-postponed Broadway debut of Rick Besoyan, who wrote Little Mary Sunshine, the Oklahoma! of off Broadway. Another spoof of the operettas of the '20s, this one is called The Student Gypsy, or The Prince of Liederkranz, starring Eileen Brennan, who was Little Mary (Sept...
Died. Richard Barthelmess, 68, square-jawed movie idol of the '20s and '30s, best remembered as the country-boy hero of Tol'able David and the rescuer of distraught D. W. Griffith heroines in Broken Blossoms and Way Down East, a canny New Yorker who invested his savings well, lived out a comfortable retirement (since 1942) with a Long Island mansion and a yacht; of cancer; in Southampton...
...after another, U.S. airlines are ordering jets from European planemakers. Last week it was Pan American, which placed a hefty order for 160 French Dassault ten-passenger Mystere 20s at $775,000 each. Pan Am plans to sell (and maybe lease) the twin-engined executive jets to corporations and individuals in the U.S. and Canada. The purchase is one more blow to U.S. airframe makers, who are feeling the in creasing pressure of aggressive competition from European planemakers...