Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIZARD OF OZ (NBC, 7-9 p.m.). Dorothy and her friends travel the yellow brick road once more as the 1939 classic, always a favorite on television, gets its tenth screening...
...sweep and immediacy, the shock wave of looting, arson and outrage that swept the nation's black ghettos after Martin Luther King's murder exceeded anything in the American experience. By week's end, 168 towns and cities had echoed to the crash of brick through window glass, the crackle of the incendiary's witch's torch, the scream of sirens and the anvil chorus of looters. Yet one sound was remarkable in its very diminuendo. The fierce fusillades of gunfire that exacerbated the disorders of years past were heard only rarely last week...
...beaten streets of the Peach State's capital in temperatures that reached 82° F. By 10:30 a.m., the nominal starting time, more than 35,000 Negroes and whites from as far away as Los Angeles and Boston had packed the side streets around the red brick Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Avenue, where King had served as co-pastor with his father for eight years...
...Washington, D.C., on a Friday afternoon two weeks ago, it was two huge pillars of gray smoke rising above the tan brick office buildings of K Street. Absolutely silent, thousands of cars filled with white government workers were evacuating the city. Every afternoon, they head for the bridges over the Potomac River in tangled horn-honking confusion, with their blue Maryland and black Virginia plates. But today, they were locked together bumper-to-bumper, heading for Key Bridge in a massive, determined phalanx. No one blew a horn. Quietly, the shirtsleeved car-pool drivers and passengers looked over their shoulders...
Schweitzer, his wife Catherine and their daughter Juliette, 13, have come to love the U.S. They live in the same whitewashed brick house he occupied during a 1947-49 stint as a financial counselor to the French embassy. (It just happened to be for sale again when he returned.) Their son Louis, 25, is a student in Paris. Schweitzer finds Washington social life a bore, likes to putter in his garden, walk with his family in his spare time. He has become a fan of hamburgers, motels and dry martinis. At home, he drinks California wine ("to help with your...