Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Brandt accepts the award and its $87,000 cash dividend in Oslo on Dec. 10, the stage will be set for a thoroughly nostalgic scene. As a young journalist who had actively opposed Hitler, Brandt fled to Norway in 1933, became a citizen and later fought the Nazi invaders as a Norwegian major. He will deliver his acceptance speech in Norwegian-"My first language," as he is fond of saying. At his side will be his Norwegian-born wife...
...jailbirds?all the characters who would be promptly denounced as racist stereotypes if a white playwright dared to suggest their existence. Inevitably, there are quite a few moments of truth, a quite poignant one when a country boy (Ralph Wilcox) finds out that his sister (Barbara Alston) who fled to the city has become a prostitute. But the book is torpid, the music is undistinguished and the words are undistinguishable, thanks to a faulty sound system and a resolutely amateurish cast...
...less than Watts, is physically a part of California, and as such, is a legatee of the state's allure. There is a sign on the side of Highway 101 that runs through the town which reads. "It's All Happening In Soledad." However, just as the black who fled from the East and the South in hopes of finding the good life in Watts have been forced to live in frustration, disappointment and neglect, so have the white dustbowl refugees who have settled in Soledad and the rest of the Salinas Valley...
...Baby Lenore" adoption case. The decision meant that Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas DeMartino must surrender their adopted daughter, Lenore, 16 months old, to her natural mother and face a 30-day contempt of court sentence -but only if the DeMartinos ever return to New York State. They fled New York City to avoid giving up the child and now live in Miami. A Florida judge has ruled that under state law they could keep Lenore...
...Using modern weaponry, much of it American supplied, the West Pakistani army and air force rain death on Bangla Death guerrillas and non-combatents alike. Accurate casualty figures are impossible to come by, but informed sources place the death toll at close to 500,000. Nine million refuges have fled across the border to India, while the number of homeless within Bangla Desh is astronomical but impossible to ascertain. As the food supply runs out in Bangla Desh, the increasing prospects of widespread famine ominously signify that Pakistan may yet replace Hitler's Germany as an archtype of 20th century...