Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tale for the Mirror, by Hortense Cal-isher. Masterful anecdotes of human hope, and foibles for our time, set in exurbia-on-Hudson, written by a subtle and stylish mistress of the short story...
...Impresario George Wein. White Pianist Paul Winter, 22, who has three Negroes in his sextet, agrees: "We're right in the middle of a Crow Jim period. Out in Chicago they told us, 'Don't go to New York-you're ofay.' "* Echoes Drummer Cal Tjader: "I don't think I'd very much like to be a white boy just starting out in New York...
...West's golden bubble might burst on some chilly fall weekend to come, but keyed-up fans are making the most of it while it lasts. "Who's No. 1?-We're No. 1," chanted the U.C.L.A. cheering section with pardonable delirium. Southern Cal alumni happily compared their 1962 squad to the great Trojan teams of the '40s. And up in Seattle, Husky Stadium rocked to the fervent strains of Heaven Help the Foes of Washington. "I've never seen anything like it," said a Purdue official just before the Boilermakers took the field against...
...discovered, "to play a very full jazz solo with this stuff; you can do a great deal that you can't do with regular four-four time." Byrd cut a bossa nova album with Tenor Saxophonist Stan Getz. Soon there were bossa nova recordings by, among others, Vibraharpist Cal Tjader, Bandleader Lionel Hampton, Saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Zoot Sims. The record companies, hungry for a trend, are now ready to rush 15 or so albums with bossa nova numbers onto the market. Among the featured performers: Peggy Lee, George Shearing. Vic Damone, Paul Anka...
CONVERSION of Fidel Castro's Cuba to a Communist island fortress in the Caribbean began with the arrival of Czech-made ZB R-2 .30-cal. rifles from Baltic ports in August of 1960. By mid-1961, the U.S. Defense Department was estimating that Castro had received $100 million worth of Soviet-bloc armaments. Since then, the estimate has jumped to $175 million at the minimum. The sheer bulk of arms is staggering: 400,000 tons. A study of Castro's arsenal, based on the best available intelligence...