Word: ch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flock of pigeons burst skyward into the midday Yokohama sun, released in celebration from their papier-mâché prison. Bands blared and confetti swirled over the waters of Tokyo Bay. Japan, the world's biggest shipbuilder, was launching the world's biggest ship: the Tokyo Maru, a bulb-nosed 1,006-ft.-long, 150,000-ton oil tanker...
...what's buggin' you guys? Is everyone anti-us? Yea, we dig the Beatles, go ape for causes, and cut out to disco-thèques, but man, weren't you ever a teenager? Sonny and Chér, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones are like us. They're part of our era. Everyone used to say we didn't care. Well, now we do, and what do you do? You make...
...Viet Nam. They range from scores of workaday Hueys to 48 Chinook transport copters with a lift capacity of some 13,000 Ibs., the first to arrive in Viet Nam. Four of the First's helicopters are the only ones of their breed in the world: giant CH...
...REALLY WANT TO DO (Imperial). Chér solos the Dylan song that lays down Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy for teenagers: "I don't want to select you, dissect you, inspect you or reject you./ All I really want to do is be friends with you." Chér turns out to have a coarse, grainy alto voice with a wide-open quality that projects a lot of feeling without too much sentimentality...
Sonny Bono, 25, and his wife Chér, 19, say it is all love: "I love Chér and Chér loves me and that's our image." With four singles and one LP high on the bestseller charts, they are the reigning sweethearts of folk rock. Their costumes, faithfully imitated by their followers, are pop art with pockets: Chér in wildly striped bell-bottom slacks, Sonny in shaggy bobcat and possum fur vests. In the face of adult censure, they join hands and sing I Got You, Babe: "They say your hair...