Word: caf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jazz Gallery is a cold, concrete cave that could be an abandoned subway station; dedicated ears listen while Thelonious Monk passively stirs his piano or Dave Brubeck passionately tinkles his. From Basin Street East to the Roundtable, the Half Note Club to Birdland, the Embers to the Five Spot Café, the big cats prowl; and no jazz musician considers his career made until he has made it in Manhattan. There are also places like the Metropole, where the old-timers of Dixieland stand atop the bar and blare forth to people who come in off Seventh Avenue. Wild Bill...
...among Britain's African territories. For years African shoppers were not even allowed in stores, had to be served through hatchways in the wall. But encouraged by Britain's Colonial Office, the protectorate last month promulgated a new law forbidding racial discrimination in hotel dining rooms, restaurants, cafés and movie houses...
...come with their young son to live in Paris, things were getting desperate. Then one day in 1958, while the parents were having one of their quarrels, the son tucked some gouaches he had been doing under his arm, slipped out to peddle them at the Left Bank cafés. The first painting he offered went for $1 - and that was the beginning of the astonishing rise of Aldo Franceschini...
...skinned, contorted people and wild-eyed, gaping crocodiles and owls. He kept a dead bird hanging above his workbench, and when he was not painting, peddling or going to school, he endlessly read Gide. In time the sad-faced boy in checkered shorts became a familiar sight at the Café; des Deux Magots. From $1, his price slowly rose...
...milestone in race relations in southern Africa. In the capital of Lusaka, where in the past Africans were required to make their purchases through hatches at the rear of shops, the legislative council passed a bill barring further racial discrimination in Northern Rhodesia's hotel dining rooms, cafés, movie houses and other public places. Businessmen who can prove they have suffered a heavy loss of white customers by allowing Africans to trade will be compensated by the government in the first twelve months...