Word: band
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot of the scandal is triangular, and the third party was handsome, mus cular Stevan ("the Bull") Markovic, a 31-year-old Serb who worked for Alain as a combination valet, bodyguard and friend. When Delon and Nathalie sallied forth to Parisian boites and discotheques, surrounded by their band of hangers-on, Markovic was always at their side. Wherever Alain went, in fact, Stevan was sure to go. He lived with them in their plush town house at 22 Avenue de Messine, traveled with them to their luxurious beach home at St.-Tropez. A skilled wrestler, he was equally quick...
Their cadres had earlier spread word that 21 government troopers would die -one for each of the guerrillas slain in the January encounters. Brigadier General Vicente Raval, who commands the Constabulary, put his forces on alert. But within hours, a band of about 20 Huks ambushed a twelve-man government detail, killing two and wounding nine. Three days later, another group shot up an army Jeep. A lieutenant and two other soldiers died in the fusillade; the lieutenant's four-year-old son was wounded, and only one passenger escaped unharmed...
...When I first started, nobody listened," says Kenneth Ward, senior vice president of Hay den, Stone & Co., a Manhattan-based brokerage house. That was 37 years ago, when Ward was one of a hardy but much heckled band of analysts who presumed to forecast stock prices merely by reading lines on charts. Ward can hardly complain of the following that has since been won by Wall Street's chart-oriented technicians. Practically every house and mutual fund has one or more chartists in its research department, and thou sands of individual subscribers pay any where from...
...spoof, the situation, whatever comes out is a collage of jokes, not simply a collection. Lines fall disjointedly and still very much in unison; and the composite result is the Proposition's own Sgt. Pepper's Band. Like the Beatles, there are the songs and then there are the Beatles. While you hum the songs, you love the Beatles...
...Band. He was persuasive as a busker too. Starting out with just a guitar, he gained attention by becoming a one-man band, simultaneously playing a kazoo, tambourine and drum, in addition to the guitar. "He really busked in style," says one admirer. "He used to arrive in a taxi and go home afterward the same way." At his peak, Partridge made $300 a week...