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Word: addresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible to hear the music of unamplified instruments above the din of the people at the bar, of the cars in the streets, and of the elevated trains overhead. The result was that Blues became amplified. Guitars were electrified, the singing was carried over a public address system and drums, extra guitars, bass piano and other instruments were added to increase volume and provide music for dancing as well as listening...

Author: By James C. Gutman, | Title: B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...particularly interesting lead was provided by a letter that Markovic. wrote, shortly before his death, to his brother Aleksander, a Trieste businessman and once captain of the yacht of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. In that letter Stevan told his brother that "if anything happens to me, address yourself to Alain Delon, to his wife and to his associate Francois Marcantoni, a real gangster . . ." Police seized Marcantoni, once linked with the Corsican Mafia, and began putting him through a long series of interrogations that are still going on. So far, however, he has not incriminated himself. "They want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Bodyguard | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...woman." William Butler Yeats, who finally married at 52, was well into his 70s before he began trumpeting the raw sexuality of The Wild Old Wicked Man. Victor Hugo, at 82, told the French Senate with a wicked exuberance: "It is difficult for a man of my years to address such an august body. Almost as difficult as it is for a man of my years to make love three-no, four-times in one afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: IN PRAISE OF MAY-DECEMBER MARRIAGES | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...church than to join the Catholic priesthood. All a candidate needs is a postage stamp. He will be ordained a minister by return mail. Any man, woman or child can become a minister in the Universal Life Church. The only thing that Hensley demands is a name and an address, so that he can fill out the certificate. After that, the new minister is on his own. In California, and according to Hensley, in many other states, he can perform marriages (if he is over 21), officiate at funerals, dedicate churches, baptize, take up collections and ordain other ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clergy: Mail-Order Ministers | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...Many colleges have asked us to deliver," Lewis said. "They call us when there aren't enough copies." In the B.U. library, BAD's arrival was once announced over the public address system. At Harvard things have never been that easy. Dean Watson hadn't even heard of Boston After Dark until Stephen B. Kellogg '71, publisher of the Student Calendar, questioned its illegal distribution in the Houses. Actually, Lewis said, a month after BAD began publishing they requested perimssion to deliver at Harvard from Watson, "who said he'd have to ask about 40 people" and he'd have...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Making It on Boylston Street | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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