Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Donald Albanito, a juror in the 1967 murder trial of Mass Murderer Richard Speck, spent four weeks cooped up in the Pere Marquette Hotel in Peoria, Ill. Albanito, head of the business faculty at Peoria's Bradley University, said the jurors became so bored that they spent long hours idly gazing out hotel windows. When a bailiff ordered one man to close his window, reports Albanito, the edgy juror shouted at him: "If you so much as touch that damn window, I'll throw a chair right through...
...anti-star occasionally flashes star temperament. Donald Driver, director of Jimmy Shine, remembers that "Dustin cut his finger on opening night in Baltimore. Long after it had healed, he insisted that the stage manager announce to the audience that Mr. Hoffman was appearing with a cut finger. It was a blatant bid for public sympathy." It also appears that Dustin never became too big to pick up small change. Jimmy Shine Producer Zev Bufman calls him "a hard bargainer who held us up for half the profits on the $1.00 souvenir programs because we didn't clear material about...
Good Reasons. In setting out to make a visual sighting of a pulsar, Astronomers John Cocke, Michael Disney and Donald Taylor defied the beliefs of more experienced astronomers who were certain that the strange objects would be too small and distant to be seen through terrestrial telescopes. Undaunted, they pointed the 36-in. telescope at Arizona's Steward Observatory toward a small star in the Crab nebula, the glowing, cloudlike remnant of a supernova (stellar explosion) that was first witnessed from earth...
...cultural capital of Black America, 1900-1968." The show contained no paintings by black artists - or, for that matter, by white artists. Organized by Allon Schoener, Visual Arts Di rector of the N. Y. State Council on the Arts and a white man, with Negro Audio Engineer Donald Harper and Negro Photographer Reginald McGhee, it filled 14 of the Met's galleries with 600 photographic blowups and slides, plus videotapes and recordings...
...DONALD BROOKS, of the four designers, is the most outspoken and persistent in his criticism of Pat Nixon's current mode. "Maybe now that she has arrived," he says, "she can achieve a feeling of calm and contentment. She can stop considering herself in terms of the average and create her own style. Her little pink coat is too pedestrian an approach. Fluff just isn't becoming on her. She needs an overhauling...