Word: hood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization devoted to the promotion of happiness, were initiating new members into their jolly ranks. Alack, they had one joiner whose visage no vintage could sweeten: Oillionaire J. Paul Getty, 73. Beside him, U.S. Admiral Charles Griffin looked like Bacchus in his ceremonial garb. Poor Paul looked like Robin Hood with heartburn...
...Femme, a modest story of a simple love affair between a young widow (Anouk Aimée) and a racing-car driver (Jean-Louis Trintignant). New Wave Director Claude Lelouch, 28, shot the picture in four weeks, at one point had himself strapped with his camera to the hood of a speeding car to get realistic footage of the races. The crusty critics even applauded during the showing, rated the film as an homme-dinger, a top contender for the festival's first prize, the Golden Palm...
...marked instead by feuding with the police department, the mayor's indictment on charges of soliciting a $25,000 bribe (he was acquitted), an unsuccessful recall movement, and such ludicrous controversies as a hassle over the size of a G string worn by arrested Stripper Robin S. Hood. The Omaha Chamber of Commerce took special pains to see that delegations considering locating businesses in Omaha did not meet Dworak, and Omaha City Hall became known as "Silly Hall." The public coffers were virtually bare when Sorensen took over...
...felony. Last week he came up for sentencing in New York's Federal District Court, where Judge Harold Tyler Jr. dismissed his argument that igniting a draft card is a form of free speech, but announced dryly that he would not "create a myth of martyr-hood." After handing down a three-year sentence, the judge suspended it on condition that Miller obtain a new draft card, carry it as required by law, and submit to induction if drafted...
...poverty, he said goodbye on the corps' fifth anniversary at a "Shriver a Go-Go Party." As 1,500 corpsmen and friends jammed into the ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, Shriver assured everyone that things would still be jumping under new Director Jack Hood Vaughn. "Jack's a fighter," said Sarge...