Word: avalon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other lesser ones. For example, another $1.4 million will have to be provided to construct the Center for Reproductive Biology at the Medical School. A total of $3.5 million has already been raised toward this end ($1.8 million from the Federal Government and $1.7 million from the Ford and Avalon Foundations). In addition, the Rockefeller Foundation has pledged as part of the Program for Harvard Medicine the sum of $2 million payable over a period of years to provide staffing for the Center. The Medical School also has other large building needs. And we are still $800,000 short...
Died. Mississippi John Hurt, 74, Negro blues singer, guitarist and composer who was discovered in 1928 by a recording company, then faded back into obscurity as a $28-a-month hired farm hand in Avalon, Miss., until he was rediscovered in 1963 by the new folkniks, who put him back on records and in concert halls, doted on his shy, sweet way of singing Avalon Blues or such wryly erotic songs as Candy Man and Salty Dog, also found his gnarled hands and walnut face an illustration of his Trouble, I've Had It All My Days...
Then you cross Avalon and see the first of the "Treeline Projects," long chains of two-story apartments built by federal, state, and local welfare agencies. Groups of eight or ten men, young and old, may be sitting on the small patch of grass in front, waiting for another day to pass, thinking about a gallon of wine. And traveling east you may see a poster on the wall of a deserted building urging "Boycott, Baby, Boycott," or just "B---, Baby, B---." Now you're in Watts...
Born. To Frankie Avalon, 25, onetime teen-age singing idol, currently starring in yé-yé movies (Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine), and Kay Deibel Avalon, 27, former dental technician: their third child, first daughter; in Los Angeles...
Cracking the Cranium. The idea behind the newest games seems to be: Make them impossible, or at least interminable. Strategy games such as Diplomacy (TIME, Dec. 13, 1963) often drag on for eight hours, can devour a whole weekend. War games, notably Avalon Hill's Waterloo, Stalingrad and Gettysburg, allow a player to second-guess Napoleon, Hitler or Lee, and, if successful, reverse the course of history...