Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the weekend there was scattered violence on campuses across the country. ROTC centers were burned at the University of Maryland, Hobart, -Princeton and Oregon State, Demonstrators were also arrested at Southern Illinois University and the University of Cincinnati...
...dream ticket has turned into a nightmare for party professionals and jeopardized a good chance for the Republicans to pick up a vital seat in their drive to win control of the Senate in 1970. Robert Taft Jr., 53, son of the late Senator and scion of the wealthy Cincinnati family, was to have run for Governor, with Incumbent Governor James Rhodes, 60, going for the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Stephen Young, 81. Instead, the two Republicans are locked in combat for the Senate nomination, with the only real campaign issue being Rhodes' integrity...
Fiftyish but still game, Rose was back at Cincinnati's Gayety Burlesk last week. But the beat at the Gayety was a dirge to the vanishing world of burlesque. In its rowdy, 60-year history, the old grind house featured such titillating favorites as Tempest Storm, Trudine, The Quiver Queen, and Moonbeam McSwine (complete with an armful of randy piglets). Like most such houses, it has been reduced in recent years to skin flicks, separated by the geriatric gyrations of faded strippers. Now the Gayety is being torn down to make way for a parking lot. To mourn...
Flit Guns. Cincinnati citizens turned the two-night extravaganza into a community project. The Minsky show was staged in the nearby Shubert Theater, and post-performance parties were thrown at the Gayety. Some 100 lady volunteers scrubbed away part of the Gayety's grime and even painted over the most unsavory washroom graffiti. Sixty years of libidinous musk was impossible to eradicate, however; before the opening-night party, Flit guns filled with Nettie Rosenstein perfume were distributed among the ladies...
Died. Maurice Stokes, 36, former Cincinnati Royals basketball star who was struck down by paralysis at the peak of his career; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati. A 6-ft. 7-in. forward, Stokes was a three-time National Basketball Association All-Star, second in the league in rebounds (18.1 a game) and averaging 16.9 points a game in 1958, when he was stricken by post-traumatic encephalopathy (paralysis caused by brain swelling). Aided by his teammates, who inaugurated the annual Maurice Stokes All-Star Game to raise funds for his therapy, he began a gallant struggle for recovery. Completely...