Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from white churches. The league intended to bar Forman from entering-despite the temple officials' stated willingness to hear him speak and to listen to his arguments. A showdown was avoided when the black leader failed to appear on schedule. Now the league is planning a nine-week camp program near Woodbourne, N.Y., to train members in such things as the use of karate, the handling of firearms, and the arts and techniques of street-corner debating...
...training camp at Grossinger's resort, the slab-chested challenger, Jerry Quarry, 24, growled: "I'll come out burn-in'." At the nearby Concord Hotel, the undefeated champion, Joe Frazier, 25, growled: "I'll come out smokin'." Fight fans have learned to expect that the loud er the talk the duller the fight - but not this time. At Madison Square Garden last week, both fighters were burnin' and smokin' in one of the hottest heavyweight bouts in recent years...
Mention this legend of the Summer School to H. Francis Wilkinson, acting director of the school, and you'll first get a measured silence, and then a firm rebuttal to the legend. It's no longer a rest camp, if it ever was," he says. Queried about the percentage of Summer School students who come for relaxation and little else, Wilkinson replies, "There are some, but there are some in Harvard College too." He hastens to point out that, last summer, two-thirds of the summer students received only honors grades...
...theater renamed Eden, would be a nude frontier in permissive theater. In an anticipatory dither, sophisticated and not so sophisticated New Yorkers rushed to the box office to make the show's 41 previews sellouts. They verified the rumor. Oh! Calcutta! is the nudest show outside a nudist camp. Though the top price on the scale is $7.50 for an orchestra seat, scalpers have collected $20 and more. On July 8th the box-office price goes to $15, and the following month to $25. That will make Oh! Calcutta! the highest-priced show on or off Broadway. With more...
...lives in the Civil War; Milo has lost his identity. He remembers nothing that happened before his war injury. Now, fearful and gullible, he traverses the countryside, a figure as lean and dangerous as the bowie knife he carries on his hip. When the two wanderers attend a fundamentalist camp meeting, George joins the screaming sinners who gather at the preacher's feet. The next morning the preacher is found hacked to death and Milo has vanished. George pushes on to a new town and eventually to a new home. But he knows that he has not seen...