Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year option on ex-Husband Desi Arnaz (but retained half interest in their $20 million Desilu Productions empire), carrot-crested Comedienne Lucille Ball, 50, decided on a second marriage. Her new choice: Bronx-born Gary Morton, 44, a tall, dark nightclub comic whom she met over pizza on a blind date a year ago. Said Lucy, busily making arrangements for a Bergdorf Goodman trousseau, the services of the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, and an Acapulco honeymoon: "I'm looking forward to a nice quiet life...
...Kline, every admission to a mental hospital means that society or psychiatry has failed: illnesses should be diagnosed earlier and treated promptly and aggressively, which means using drugs in most cases. His explanation of why such energetic measures are not being generally adopted: "Blind prejudice, ignorance and despicable smugness are spelling disaster for tens of thousands of patients...
Nevertheless, Davis won a tremendous ovation of appreciation. The applause was a fitting tribute to vibrant musician and a person of great courage. The reverend Gary Davis, now a struggling Harlem resident, is blind...
...suddenly I see item II. I have been trapped. I have contemplated the catastrophe, and therefore I "obviously" must advocate it (although the Committee assures me that it "shares my concern.") The Committee here believes that it is better to deliberately blind oneself, to live in a dream world, rather than face reality and attempt to deal with...
Died. Sigurd F. Varian, 60, ex-chairman of California's Varian Associates, a one time barnstorming pilot whose distaste for blind flying led him to invent (with two partners) the klystron tube, the high-frequency heart of radar development; in a private-plane crash; between Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico...