Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stars Over Hollywood (Sat. 12:30 p.m., CBS). Blackout with Victor Moore...
Deprived by the power blackout of the BBC's regular 1 o'clock news bulletin, Belfasters worried that the Irish republican army might be back on the warpath. Police shrugged off the explosion as an "accident," but privately they were not so sure. Hundreds of armed men mounted guard along the 90-mile railroad line from Belfast to Londonderry. Their vigilance did not relax until Queen Elizabeth and consort stepped safely aboard their Viking and winged back to London...
...Hearn indicated that Yale's decision was strongly opposed by Robert Hall, Yale athletic director who resigned last week. Hall had been Chairman of the NCAA Committee which formed the TV blackout policy. "Since Mr. Hall resigned from our policy committee which decided to break with the NCAA TV program, we can safely assume that he wasn't in accord with its decision," O'Hearn said...
With the raucous wail of an air-raid siren, spring came all of a sudden last week to Princeton, NJ. Lights flickered off in dormitory windows, and students poured outdoors into the practice blackout. Tentatively, someone touched off a few firecrackers. "We want Joe Sugar!" chanted a few campus politicians as they tried to turn the excitement into a rally for Joseph A. Sugar of Bexley, Ohio, Ivy Club member and candidate for president of the senior class...
...same time, Princeton began early its biggest social weekend of the year by staging a three-hour riot involving broken windows, fist fights, and arrests. The demonstration followed a practice air raid blackout yesterday...