Word: belcourt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Singer Alfred Hancock, 46, was arrested five times in one day because of his vague resemblance to Roberts. "Why do I have to look like him?" complained Hancock. "Why can't I look like Mario Lanza?" At Sadler's Wells Theater, Tenor Emile Belcourt was singing the title role of Offenbach's Bluebeard when police broke in with growling dogs in pursuit...
...John W. Ellis, has been a boys' school, and is being razed to become part of the campus of a girls' college. Ochre Court, built in 1888-91 by Ogden Goelet, is a Roman Catholic women's college. The Breakers, built by Cornelius Vanderbilt and Belcourt, the house of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, are tourist attractions; The Breakers draws some 50,000 curious trippers a year at $1.75 a head...
...property, made directly to the S.A.O. rather than to the French government. Officially, the F.L.N. and the S.A.O. denied they were speaking to each other. But at the local level there were increasing contacts between the two communities. At week's end, in the Algiers suburb of Belcourt, 200 Europeans filed into a movie theater under the protection of Moslem militants to ask questions of an F.L.N. captain about their future under Moslem rule. When the meeting ended, with only a single dissent, the Europeans voted a motion of confidence "in the Algeria of tomorrow...
...Europeans queued up to see Spartacus; the line moved slowly not because of a lack of seats, but because each moviegoer was frisked for gun, knife or bomb before admittance. At sidewalk cafes, no one turned at the familiar wailing siren of an ambulance racing to Babel-Oued or Belcourt or Climat de France, where someone?European or Moslem?lay wounded or dead...
...massed 30,000 police and soldiers in Algiers to handle rioting by European mobs; they could not handle the' outpouring of Moslems. On Sunday afternoon, a paratroop regiment arrived from the back country, where it had been battling the rebel F.L.N. Rushed to the Moslem quarter of Belcourt, the paratroops took one look at the flag-waving Moslems and then advanced, firing submachine guns from the hip. Explained the paratroop colonel: "My men have been fighting the rebels in the Aurés Mountains. They are amazed to come up against the very same rebel flag in the heart...