Word: halled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Angry Jangles. The clash outside Lucerna Hall was the kind of public protest that has put Party Chief Alexander Dubček under increasing pressures. Those pressures start, of course, with the Russians. Time and again during the recent demonstrations, the hot-line telephone on Dubček's desk jangled with angry calls from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, who warned that the Russian army was capable of controlling the streets if Dubček was not. Dubček summoned student leaders to his office and sternly warned that the party would not tolerate any more anti...
Moscow's crematory hall echoed with the somber notes of Chopin's Funeral March as the group of 200 mourners stood around the open coffin. They listened quietly as a tall, ramrod-straight man, his voice choked with emotion, eulogized its occupant. Suddenly, the cavernous hall's public-address system crackled out a brusque announcement that the group's time was up. Then, before more than a handful of mourners had been able to plant a parting kiss on the dead man's forehead, a woman in a black smock slid a cover...
...Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty is not a man to shirk his civic duty. There he was in front of city hall, amiably lying on a plank supported by two chairs, while a magician hovered nearby. Then the magician slowly removed each chair, leaving the Mayor apparently suspended in midair. The reason for all the levity was an "Academy of Magical Arts" day, proclaimed to promote the cause of magic in L.A. Sam certainly rose to the occasion. "There's often a need for magic in politics," he said. "Why, as mayor, you have to have the ability...
Married. Anne McDonnell Ford, 48, who has devoted her energies to charity work and maintaining her position in fashion's Hall of Fame since her 23-year marriage to Henry Ford II ended in divorce four years ago; and Deane Johnson, 50, senior partner in the Los Angeles law firm of O'Melveny & Myers; both for the second time; in Daughter Charlotte Ford Niarchos' penthouse apartment; in Manhattan...
...Once I put one past the Harvard band--only once--and that was during a Carnegie Hall performance," Alice said. "I put a sign in Walker's music saying 'Try not to make too big an ass of yourself.' Walker was convinced everybody in Carnegie Hall had seen...