Word: ers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coffin of King Mohammed V emerged, draped in a venerable black, green and gold cloth that, by tradition, had hung at the tomb of the Prophet in Mecca. Rhyth mically the crowd cried "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" (God is most great). Thus last week King Mohammed V. the found er of independent Morocco, was laid to rest in the royal mausoleum. Mohammed, though recently prone to hypochondria, was in good health and enjoyed life with his two wives and an estimated 28 concubines. Yet last week, swiftly and unexpectedly, he died of heart failure at the age of 51, after...
EXETER: Peter Sellers, This one's called TWO STRETCH, and allows the peritic Peter to don prison garb in er to spoof English thrillers, incidentally, English penal intions. Evenings...
...Henry Clay approach helps explain why during all his years as Speaker he suffered a situation that the autocrats among his predecessors would have considered unthinkable: lack of a dependable working majority on the Rules Committee. Under earlier Speakers, Rules came to be called the "arm of the Speak er." Rayburn operated without that...
...pray that the Cubans will find jobs to keep them busy. But Dade County already counts 22,000 unemployed Americans, and probably no more than 1,000 refugees have regular jobs. Former Under Secretary of Commerce Carlos Smith, 52, wears a white coat as a Fontainebleau Hotel room wait er; former Supreme Court Justice Jose Cabezas is a fruit-plant shipping clerk; Prensa Libre's onetime personnel director. Diego Gonzalez, 42. sorts soda bottles in a supermarket for 70? an hour and is glad to have the work. "We get $6 to $8 a day," said a former customs...
...stage presence and dramatic insight, Sutherland is still no match for that oth er mistress of rare and early opera, Maria Callas. But not even Callas fans could deny last week that in sheer vocal technique, Sutherland had earned her Olympic gold medal...