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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...
...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...