Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chronicle Columnist Ralph J. Gleason heard it, gave it a plug or two, and record companies started a bidding war for the album. New York's Buddah Records got there first and capped the deal with a $55,000 advance and a $25,-000 bonus. Buddah changed the group's name to the Edwin Hawkins Singers, put the record out-and the world smiled...
...sacred for dancing. For another, the success of Oh Happy Day has spawned a rash of imitators. The biggest shock of all, however, is that two of Hawkins' soloists have quit and gone out on their own. One of them, Betty Watson, has even organized her own group, taken the old name of Hawkins' chorus, and agreed to appear at the West Coast's leading rock palace, the Fillmore West...
Toumliline was founded above the Berber town of Azrou in 1952 by a group of French monks who chose the site-about 100 miles southeast of the Moroccan capital of Rabat-because it was suitably remote for contemplation. At first, French colonial authorities tried to persuade the monks to Christianize the area's Berber tribesmen (and thus play them off against Arab nationalists in the cities), but Prior Dom Denis Martin and his monks refused to cooperate. "It would be criminal to convert Moslems," said Dom Denis, explaining that any converts would be outcasts in their own country. Instead...
...children of French settlers. When the villagers learned that one monk was a doctor, the monastery was besieged with sick calls and a dispensary was opened. Much against their will, the monks were drawn into the complexities of Moroccan politics. One day during the summer of 1954, a group of Arab nationalist prisoners from a nearby detention camp, working on a water main near the monastery, complained of the heat and their thirst. The prior dispatched some monks with mint-flavored tea, a favorite Moroccan drink, for the prisoners. When the local French commandant ordered him to stop, he refused...
...these shots necessary? No, says a group of experts headed by Harvard's Dr. Thomas C. Peebles, who shared a Nobel prize for his part in the research that made polio vaccines possible. The experts do not intend to minimize the importance of vaccination against tetanus, the infection that usually results from deep and dirty wounds in which the tetanus bacteria can thrive without air. Every year it kills almost 200 Americans, the doctors point out in the New England Journal of Medicine...