Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Green Berets named a search-and-clear mission after her. Landing lights and television cameras were trained on her when she visited an aircraft carrier, and the sailors were later treated to an "Hour with Michele" over closed-circuit sets. After she spent a night in the field with the 4th Infantry Division near Pleiku, the soldiers nailed a sign to a tree: "Michele Slept Here." But last week Michele Ray, the red- haired, 29-year-old French beauty and ex-model, was nowhere to be found: she had been captured by the Viet Cong...
...thereby provide grounds for the revocation of a broker's license. In the other direction, laws giving homeowners the right to sell or rent to whomever they wish are being struck down. Following the lead of the California Supreme Court, which took similar action last year, a Michigan Circuit Court ruled that the voter-installed Detroit homeowners' ordinance was "unconstitutional because of its excessive vagueness...
From Chitlins to Champagne. No one is more dazzled by the sudden mass acceptance of the Rawls style than Rawls himself. Only four months ago, he completed what he hopes was his last engagement on the "chitlin circuit"-a string of small Negro nightclubs such as Cleveland's Corner Tavern, San Francisco's Sugar Hill, St. Louis' Riviera. In most of them, the singer perches on a dime-sized platform above the bar and tries to make himself heard above the jingle of the cash register and the jangle of the audience. And it was in just...
...that Rawls is riding the champagne circuit, his audiences are as attentive as seers at a seance. But he still talks, talks, talks. Rewardingly so. In a performance at Carnegie Hall last week, on the first of a series of tours booked into virtually every major U.S. nightclub and concert hall, his blend of spiel and song was an unqualified success...
...Outskirts. A baby-faced bantamweight of 31, Rawls prepped in the choir loft of the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side. In 1959, he began scuffling around the chitlin circuit, patrolling the outskirts of success with a series of recordings that at various times labeled him as a jazz, pop, gospel and even folk singer. Then, early last year, he decided to dish up some good old chitlin-style singing and sweet-talking. He invited a bunch of friends to the recording studio and recorded Lou Rawls LIVE! to their finger-popping, hand-clapping accompaniment...