Word: avalon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their fury. Hour after hour, the toll mounted: 27 dead at week's end, nearly 600 injured, 1,700 arrested, property damage well over $100 million. Minute by minute, police radios logged a Wellsian cata logue of carnage: "Manchester and Broadway, a mob of 1,000 . . . Shots at Avalon and Imperial . . . Vernon and Central, looting . . . Yellow cab over turned . . . Man pulled from car on Imperial Highway . . . 88th and Broad way, gun battle . . . Officer in trouble." The riot was the worst in the city's history, one of the worst ever in the U.S. To help quell it, California...
...seven women; Federal Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is one of the teachers. Each student pays $80, but the Salzburg Corporation estimates that it spends some $500 on each student, gets the difference from the Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Commonwealth and Avalon Foundations, plus private U.S. corporations and individual donors. Some 45 lectures are jammed into each four weeks, followed by afternoon talkfests in which the lectures are expanded or shredded. A main attraction is a 15,000-volume library of Americana...
Fresh in from Avalon, Ohio (pronounced Uh-hia), to attend a corn-fed Manhattan postal convention, Evie (Geraldine Page) coyly introduces herself: "I'm a postmaster. Suppose I ought to say postmistress, but that sounds a bit racy." Desperately folksy, she calls the bellhop "Shorty," greets the switchboard operator with: "You sound as if your name ought to be Virginia...
...HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). With Carroll Baker, Johnny Carson and Frankie Avalon...
Born. To Frankie Avalon, 24, rock-'n-roller turned cinemactor (Muscle Beach Party), and Kay Deibel, 26, former dental technician: their second child, second son; in Los Angeles...