Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Residents of Haverhill, Mass., take the game so solemnly that the town was thrown into a tizzy when the coach of the local Rotary Club-sponsored team allowed Sharon Poole, a redhaired, freckle-faced girl of twelve, to don uniform No. 9 and fill a vacancy in the otherwise all-boys group. Batting cleanup, she drove in a run in her first game, went hitless in her second, and earned her teammates' respect with her agility in center field as the team won both games. But Coach Donald Sciuto kept getting complaints from parents about allowing Sharon to play...
Rock shows are canceled in Hampton Beach, N.H., when youths try to break into a sold-out ballroom. Worried officials are vastly relieved when 55,000 enthusiasts of the Grand Funk Railroad fill New York's Shea Stadium-and only three injuries and six arrests result. After an estimated 1,280 concerts for 3,750,000 music enthusiasts over a period of nearly six years, Promoter Bill Graham closes his Fillmore West in San Francisco, just one week after shutting down Fillmore East in New York City...
...manufacturer produces a bigger or racier plane, the chiefs of some leading airlines figure that they must have it, and then all other lines feel obliged to follow. The debut last year of the 356-passenger 747 jumbo jet left the lines with many more seats than they could fill. The lines added so many 747s in the last year that the number of seats on North Atlantic flights soared by 18%, to as many as 56,000 each way during peak summer days...
...pervasive that the new system could not be any worse. "We are already overnumbered," wrote Munich's respectable Stüddeutsche Zeitung, "and who would have objections to a simplification of the system?" As it is, anyone moving from one city to another in West Germany must fill out an 18-inch-long questionnaire, in triplicate, first to deregister and then again to reregister...
Strange are the ways of pop taste. When Janis died last fall, it seemed for a while that women had lost their one stronghold in the world of rock. Now not only Carole but a number of other girls are trying to fill it. Among them: > Carly Simon, 26, offspring of a branch of the publishing Simons (& Schuster). At Sarah Lawrence, she and Sister Lucy had a popular folk duo called the Simon Sisters. Carly's debut album on Elektra shows her to be an adept composer in a fair range of styles (folk, country, pop). As a singer...