Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oldfashioned" rock 'n' roll in Britain. Elvis Presley is back on the charts there with Guitar Man, and his earlier hits like Blue Suede Shoes are going for as much as $4 on the second-hand record market. When Bill Haley and his Comets arrive in England next month for a tour, they will find that their epoch-making 1950s' recordings of Rock Around the Clock and Shake, Rattle and Roll have been reissued to meet a rising demand. New British groups are being formed with names like Tommy Bishop and the Rock 'n' Roll...
...Love Is Blue suddenly caught on. To date it has sold 1,850,000 copies. In turn, his albums took off too: sales of Blooming Hits, the LP that includes Love Is Blue, have soared to 750,000. Mauriat's record is also in the top 25 in England and has started to sell briskly in Japan (though not, as yet, in France). Recently he was invited to the U.S. for a TV performance on The Ed Sullivan Show and was plied with offers for cross-country personal-appearance tours...
...spite of their agreement to do so, rumors spread-and were vigorously denied-that both Belgium and Italy were dropping out of the pool; the rumors only fanned the flames of speculation. Martin emerged from the Basel meeting to describe himself as "satisfied" with its decisions. Bank of England Governor Sir Leslie O'Brien added that "I am very pleased with the results and I hope the world will...
Died. Major General Sir Robert Laycock, 60, debonair, dashing leader of England's World War II commandos; of a heart attack; in Wiseton, England. The storybook image of a daring British commando, the tall, blue-eyed Laycock led his raiders through Crete, Syria, Sicily and Salerno, executed his boldest raid in 1941, when he landed on the Libyan coast, tried to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, lost 48 of his 50-man party, and escaped across the desert, living for six weeks on little else but berries and rain water...
With good weather all year round, southern schools can practice all year and are traditionally super-powers in the world of golf. The bleak New England winter drove the Crimson clubmen into Dillon Field House, where they could practice shots...