Word: blares
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blonde, shapely Debutante Charlotte danced the first number (The Most Beautiful Girl in the World} with her father, with her escort, Long Island's Peter Sullivan, and with one or another of dozens of stags. Around her jumping collegians and their elders elbowed each other in the blare of the music. Toward morning Henry Ford II climbed on the bandstand and yelled out Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop! (an early-day rock-'n'-roll tune that would have made his grandfather wince), got Meyer Davis to play that as well as his other favorites...
...With a blare of bugles and a rattle of drums, indignant speakers mounted a platform in Accra one evening last week for an "emergency demonstration" by Kwame Nkrumah's Convention Peoples' Party and the Ghana Labor Congress against TIME. An Anglican parson besought God to "destroy those who print what is not true." Led on by vanguard activists ("Comrades recruited from among the most politically educated section of party leadership [to] become educators of broad masses, especially of our illiterate comrades," Nkrumah has called them), the audience shouted Nkrumah's slogans, and Ghana "market mammies" performed tribal...