Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alan Freed goes on trial pretty soon, charged with inciting a riot at a Boston rock 'n roll show last spring, and when he walks into that court-room all America will be on trial with...
Some Judge last week refused to quash one indictment against Mr. Freed--inciting, that is--and that same Judge backed away from ruling on a second charge that Mr. Freed, who brings today's hits, yesterday's happiness and tomorrow's hopes to millions on his world-famous radio show, violated a Massachusetts anti-anarchy law. A few women and children, about 20 in all, were stabbed and beaten following a performance by some of the greatest stars of '58, but these women and children were of course the sacrifice the few must pay in order to ensure the welfare...
...time he does, they say hopefully, De Gaulle may have freed the French economy from the ruinous burden of Algerian war and found it fit at last to throw away its iron lung and breathe the bracing air of free competition. But they are also uneasily aware that the general (who respects but does not love the British) intends to chart an international course independent of his allies. The British now fear that they cannot change events before Western Europe splits into two groups-the "ins" of the six-nation community, and the "outs...
...Shantung, boasted the New China News Agency, 200,000 common messhalls and 190,000 nurseries have freed 6,700,000 mothers for work in the fields. In Honan 7,000,000 more women are now happily working away on dams or collecting manure. Peking recently predicted that during 1958 steel production and agriculture would double. But in between the glowing reports-of efficient mass dormitories, reveille at 5 a.m., and the bracing daily militia drills ("shooting three times before every meal and three times after")-even the Communists have been dropping hints of discontent in paradise...
...sees that the old man is using the white authorities as surely as they are using him. The alliance disgusts him, and when the whole nasty business blows up, Tyree is ruthlessly killed by the police, and Fishbelly spends two years in prison on a trumped-up rape charge. Freed but still fearful, he flees to Paris...