Word: elizabeth
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Fifteen miles to the southwest, a Negro mob in Plainfield, N.J., surrounded a white policeman and stomped him to death. Trouble erupted in nearby Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Jersey City and Englewood. Halfway across the nation, gangs of young Negroes in Cairo, Ill., hurled fire bombs and sniped sporadically for two nights, until Illinois Governor Otto Kerner ordered in 50 National Guard troops. Six hundred guardsmen were mobilized in Minneapolis, whose Negro population is only 2%, after two nights of rock throwing and arson. Gangs in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, lobbed rocks and vitriol at Whitey. In West Fresno...
...long been quite acceptable in Britain, but today there is less effort to conceal its causes. Lord Harewood, the 18th in line of succession to the throne, frequently appeared in public with a divorcee who bore him a son while he was still wed to his first wife. Queen Elizabeth, the temporal head of the Church of England, made a concession to the more relaxed morality by deciding to give him royal permission to marry the woman. Even Parliament now eagerly delves into areas that were formerly taboo. Three weeks ago, Commons passed a bill legalizing homosexual acts in private...
When 14-year-old Hayley Mills won a special Oscar for her 1960 performance in the title role in Pollyanna, Producer Walt Disney predicted that she would mature "into an actress more beautiful than Elizabeth Taylor and more talented than any star in motion pictures." He was not far wrong. Today, Hayley Mills lacks only Liz's animal splendors. At 21, she is prettier than her pictures, and a natural actress of growing authority and range...
...played by women. But after all this simply reverses the ancient practice, which allowed all-male casts only. A few of the big roles could have stood better acting; yet Jeannette Hume has a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this makes more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
...work: without undue harshness or permissiveness, merely by enforcing the law as it is written, his cops had kept the peace in a potentially turbulent city. Even when the Harlem riots of 1964 set off secondary explosions of racial strife in the neighboring cities of Jersey City, Paterson and Elizabeth, Newark managed to keep its cool...