Word: hood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lippy, Unlamented Mobster. His sea of troubles washed over the hood last May, when U.S. Attorney Edward Hanrahan haled him before a grand jury and craftily granted him immunity from prosecution for any crimes to which he might admit complicity. But Giancana, the syndicate's top man in Chicago, still refused to talk. Since he was thus in no danger of incriminating himself, a federal judge ruled that Sam was in contempt of court. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that ruling, in effect consigning him to his cell for as long as he chooses...
...that girl prancing on the hood of a Rolls, strutting along a beach on ice skates, fording a stream on a water buffalo, serving tea in a space suit, climbing a tree in a cocktail dress...
...spectators stood around for hours while a priest and police coaxed a shot gun away from a 29-year-old man who was threatening suicide in the back seat of a taxi. On stage at the Sahara, Comedian Buddy Hackett talked for 56 minutes straight - partly about his boy hood bouts with pimples, caused by lack of sex. And at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Cassius Clay, alias Muhammad Ali, spat carefully on the floor while Eddie Fisher was singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Clay, 23, then proceeded to demolish Floyd Patterson, 30, in defense of the heavyweight championship...
...DANGEROUS CHRISTMAS OF RED RIDING HOOD, OR OH WOLF, POOR WOLF (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). A musical special by Jule Styne, Bob Merrill and Robert Emmett. Cyril Ritchard plays Wolf, a hero in this version, and Liza Minnelli is the red (Riding Hood) menace...
Stephen Curwood as Randall, the self-educated hood, gave the most inconsistent performance. The biggest problem was switching from the smooth-tongued cool guy to the thoughtful sage, as Randall's schizophrenic character unfolded. Curwood started out with a high, screechy slum accent, which contrasted nicely with the low resonant, unaccented voice of his philosophizing self, but which was irritating to the audience...