Word: againe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A long-gone folk hero often leaves behind the legend that someday he will return to his people. Barbarossa still sleeps, and the horn of Roland has not sounded again, but Elvis Presley is appearing in the flesh before an audience for the first time in nine years.
Whether the Big Beat is really back, or just filling in the decibels until the next musical mode comes along, many of the stars of 15 years ago are getting into the money again. A few of them:
> Little Richard, 34, who powed them in '55 with his "Wop bop a loo bop ba lop bop bop-Tutti Frutti," is doing it all over again-notably last week in Manhattan's Central Park, where he ended up sharing most of his clothes with his admirers.
Sheer fantasy? Not if Mrs. Bernice Gera has anything to say about it. A Queens, N.Y., housewife and a graduate of the Florida Baseball School for umpires, Mrs. Gera, 38, recently won a contract to serve as an umpire in the Class A New York-Pennsylvania League. She was scheduled...
A compulsory year-round system has actually been tested in schools in other cities, usually as a cost-cutting expedient; it is obviously wasteful to keep costly educational facilities idle for a quarter of each year. Moreover, if a school system operates twelve months instead of nine, it can provide...