Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suspended Mike. Snappy as an Ivy League caballero in his black suit, ruffled shirt and bow tie," Alpert, 28, is an ex-Army trumpeter who has played taps for as many as 18 military funerals a day. Experimenting with a tape recorder in his garage one day, Alpert found that by overdubbing one trumpet solo on top of another, he could produce an intriguing "Spanish flair." The effect proved most rewarding in Twinkle Star, a song written by a friend...
...rebel arms. The rebels, in turn, have been loudly crying for Garcia-Godoy to fire Rivera Caminero and the rest of the service chiefs for their so-called "genocide" early in the civil war. At one point, Garcia-Godoy came out of a four-hour Cabinet meeting ready to bow to the rebels and cashier the generals-which would have meant an almost certain bloodbath...
...Bow of Ideals. Like his boss, Moyers tempers his ideals with hard-headed pragmatism. Last March, addressing a group of Peace Corpsmen, he urged them to "pursue the ideals of a Joan of Arc with the political prowess of an Adam Clayton Powell. Whatever you say about Joan, her purpose was noble. And whatever you say about Adam, his politics is effective." The word effective crops up repeatedly in bis conversation. "There is no substitute for the effective use of political skills to advance the cause of a great idea," he argues. "Ideas are great arrows, but there...
Last week, still battling sleeplessness, Clara Bow suddenly stiffened and collapsed with a heart attack as she watched television at her home in West Los Angeles. By the time her nurse could summon help, the '20s fever was over...
Died. Clara Bow, 60, Hollywood's It girl of the '20s; of an apparent heart attack; in West Los Angeles (see SHOW BUSINESS...