Word: barred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer of 1967, at a small-time bar and ballroom in Hyannis, a group called the Underground Cinema was doing its set. Ian Bruce Douglas, now probably the most fiscally successful of the Boston rock musicians, was rapping at the audience, mostly fortyish folk with company suits who were sucking booze from the bar and looking woozily over their shoulders at the weirdos on the stage. Occasionally a bleached-blonde hot tomato would do her version of the Swim with some paunchy insurance salesman, the type who would have had a lampshade on his head if there had been...
...Cooper decided in high school that he had had enough education. He made his way to California as an engine-room wiper on a tanker. He went to work for an uncle's law firm in Los Angeles, studying at night, and in 1927 passed the bar exam. Cooper built a thriving law firm. He defended Dr. Bernard Finch who, with his mistress Carole Tregoff, killed Finch's wife. Two juries were deadlocked and three trials held before Finch and Tregoff were convicted. They were saved from the gas chamber, and connoisseurs of courtroom melodrama still recall...
...wonderful. There were lots of All-America players to buy and trade A big stadium to fill with cheering fans Coaches to advise And, best of all, there was the fun of going to the Bel-Air Hotel bar and staying up late at night talking football with friends. The only trouble was that too often Danny's team lost more games than it won, once for seven seasons in a row. That got to be boring and, in an effort to liven things up, Danny kept switching coaches. When he fired No. 6 just two days before Christmas...
Charlie Ajootian and Ed Nosal took one-two in the 35-pound weight with a five-foot margin over the visitors' Don Cybulski. Jim Coleman bounced over the high-jump bar at 6 feet 3 inches to lead teammate Don Wilks in a similar sweep...
Coach Friedman-was very pleased by the team's strong showing in the jump but said the sub-bar showing in the cross country showed the team's lack of practice as compared to other college teams...