Word: caroled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poultry butcher, Venetian-blind installer, yardman), and the precarious family income was battered by heavy medical expenses. Chessman's mother was injured in an auto accident when he was nine, for the rest of her life was a chaired invalid, paralyzed from the waist down. And her son Carol (the Caryl spelling is his own invention) was sick and undersized, afflicted with bronchial asthma, chronic nasal congestion and a pale, dolorous, big-nosed, droop-lipped face...
...first Chessman made up for poverty and physical shortcomings by excelling in schoolwork. A schoolmate remembers him as "very argumentative in class. He always talked way over people's heads, and he had a superior attitude toward other students. A lot of them disliked him. Carol never seemed to make friends with nice boys, and he finally took up with some bad ones...
...Manhattan premiere of the movie Can-Can (see CINEMA), New York University Junior Carol Heiss, 20, newly crowned queen of Olympic figure skating, showed up with a fellow bladesman, Dick Button, 30, who won the men's title in the 1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics. Earlier, in properly cold weather, Carol was honored by some 250,000 admirers, who cheered her way up snow-lined lower Broadway. After she had kissed Mayor Robert Wagner Jr. seven, times (once for him, six more times for photographers), His Honor piped: "Best thing that's happened...
Since 1957 Heftler has sold 3,976 homes in Florida, plans to sell twice as many in the early 1960s. Along with the Sunset Park project with Centex, Heftler plans to build junior executive-type houses in Carol City, will start a 5,000-home development in Orlando that will have community recreation facilities...
...Fresh from winning a gold medal at the Eighth Winter Olympics in California's Squaw Valley, blonde Carol Heiss, 20, stopped off in Vancouver long enough on her way home to New York City to win her fifth straight women's world figure skating championship with a stunning display of acrobatics and poise...