Word: 47th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coretta King marched through the streets of Atlanta last week, honoring the 47th birthday of her slain husband by leading a band of protesters demanding jobs for the unemployed. Before he died, Martin Luther King Jr. had been immersed in planning a Poor People's Campaign with the same goal. Then came the sniper's shot that killed him in Memphis on April 4, 1968, the two-month pursuit of his killer, and the swift conviction of a smirking, small-time thief named James Earl Ray. Yet nearly eight years later, the widespread feeling still persists that King...
...began when a three-year-old won an amateur contest in Philadelphia with his rendition of a song called I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You. Last week in Las Vegas, Sammy Davis Jr. celebrated his 50th birthday and 47th year in show business, and concluded that getting there was half the fun. "Sure," he admitted, "I get bored sometimes saying, 'Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, here's a little song I have for you.' But it's good money in the bank, and show biz is the only life...
...point of turning out votes for his opponent, Eugene C. Schulter, 27, a real estate appraiser and protégé of the Democratic ward committeeman. Afterward, Hoellen considered dropping out of the race against Daley. Said the Republican: "If I can't be elected alderman of the 47th Ward, it's impossible for me to be elected mayor." He called Daley's victory "the ultimate in precinct power. They could have elected a gorilla." Don Rose, a leader of the antimachine Democrats and former publisher of a community newspaper, added more fairly...
APRIL 28. Leaves Washington for talks in Geneva with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Fighting on the Syrian-Israeli cease-fire line continues for the 47th consecutive...
...began on Oct. 21 in Room 4714 of the 47th Division barracks. One of two plebes who occupy the room said that he awoke to see a life-sized apparition of a 19th century officer emerge from a wall. The vision receded before the plebe could summon his roommate. The next night both saw the ghost. The story eventually reached the ears of Cadet Captain Keith Bakken. He and another upperclassman commandeered the room a few days later. The ghost promptly appeared before Bakken's confederate, but receded into the wall again. Bakken, who is still a firm nonbeliever...