Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Los Angeles and Houston, Dallas was the nation's fastest growing major metropolis between 1950 and 1960. As a result of their experience in promoting Dallas as the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Celebration, the city's merchants and bankers organized the Dallas Citizens Council (DCC). San Antonio, with the Alamo, and Houston, with nearby San Jacinto Battlefield offered more historic settings for the Centennial, but unhistoric Dallas promised $3,500,000 and well laid-out fair grounds, and won the contract. Through his experience in the venture, banker Robert Lee Thornton felt a need for a permanent...
MARG RIETTE M. HAMLETT San Antonio...
...Ward is dead," pleaded Barrister Jeremy Hutchinson last week. "Profumo is disgraced. And now I know your lordship will resist the temptation to take what I might call society's pound of flesh." It was no Antonio in the prisoner's dock at the Old Bailey, but cool, green-suited Christine Keeler (130 Ibs.), and the quality of mercy was not strained. Noting that she had been "under pressure, under fear and under domination," Judge Sir Anthony Hawke sentenced Christine to nine months in jail for perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice (maximum possible sentence for perjury alone...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE is a wan retracing by Playwright Edward Albee of Carson McCullers' dark fable about the strange and obsessive attractions of love. Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and Michael Dunn, a malapert actor-dwarf, are locked in this luckless triangle of yearning and rejection...
This was more like it. Wherever they went-in San Antonio, Houston and Fort Worth-the crowds were large, warm, and plainly in love with Jackie. Kennedy had been warned that Texas was enemy territory, indeed, Adlai Stevenson, who had been roughed up by a Texas crowd only last month, advised Kennedy Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. that some Dallasites had voiced concern over the President's safety. Now, with such fears apparently unrealized, President Kennedy was exuberant...