Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accommodate newsmen who do not have seats for the Sirhan trial, Walker has provided for closed-circuit television to bring the action to a room beneath the courtroom. Last week, however, he refused to permit videotapes to be made for possible future broadcasts. He also plans to confine the jury to a hotel during the trial, partly to prevent them from reading news reports that might influence them. "There are two kinds of press, responsible and irresponsible," he has said jocularly, "and I intend to protect the proceedings from both of them...
Between them, King and Lucille are producing some of the most potent, polished blues the nation has ever heard. It has taken white audiences 20 years to discover them. Until early in 1968, King was locked into a dreary circuit of one-nighters-sometimes more than 300 a year-in big-city ghetto clubs and back-country roadhouses and shacks. Unlike such performers as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, he was not flamboyant or commercial enough to cash in on the rock-'n'-roll explosion of the 1950s. Unlike such country stylists as Son House and Mississippi John...
...voted 52% in favor of Hughes. Then, in a surprising move, Air West's directors voted 13 to 11 not to sanction the sale. With that, some big pro-Hughes shareholders threatened court action. Hughes' agent, Francis Fox, who communicates with his secretive boss via closed-circuit TV, got in touch with the holdout directors. Perhaps because of the threatened lawsuits, six of them switched to Hughes...
...minute ceremony performed at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church by the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Julie wanted the wedding to be quiet, private and as small as possible. Only 500 family and friends were at the church, while Ike and Mamie watched over closed-circuit TV from his suite at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The only departure from the script came when Julie kissed her dad before she kissed David. Then it was off south for Christmas with her parents at Key Biscayne and a short secret honeymoon (most likely in the Bahamas) before...
...foremost composer, Pantcho Vladigerov, and made his way to Manhattan's Juilliard School by way of Turkey and Israel. In 1948 he won the prestigious Leventritt award. His career was launched in a blaze of critical superlatives. But over the years, instead of flourishing on the concert circuit, he faded. In 1957 he disappeared from...