Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wall an organ version of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" was playing. As the padre walked to the modest altar, his assistant passed out to the peasants sheets with prayers written in Quechua. This service was for those who spoke only that Indian tongue; in the previous hour the padre had said mass for the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the village. Almost none of the campesinos spoke Spanish...
...with so many shots fired, surely one must hit the target, but somehow they don't. The tension builds. You begin to laugh at near jokes, ones that fall just short of the mark, worried perhaps that the others have gone over your head. And when, after an hour and five minutes, the curtain comes down for the last time you walk out relieved, as though the main task sat not on the actors' shoulders, but yours...
Murphy was forced to blindfold himself with strips of adhesive tape; then he was dumped into the trunk of a car and taken to a house about an hour's drive from his own. Meanwhile the kidnaper, who called himself a "colonel" of the A.R.A., telephoned word of the abduction to Constitution Managing Editor G. James Minter and to WAGA-TV. "We've got Reg Murphy, editor of the Constitution, "the caller told a TV newsman. "Don't bother to call the FBI. It won't help...
...lucky enough to have avoided the Arena, the Boston Garden was built to replace the Arena. Yes it's that old. And that decrepit. And Northeastern gets to play its home games there. Lucky dogs. The seats are so uncomfortable that I couldn't sit down again for an hour following the contest without feeling their after-effects. And you thought Watson Rink...
Luci-Desi Comedy Hour. Well. Why not? Lucille Ball announced this week that she's quitting her TV show. This episode can commemorate the good old days--before Desi was fat and gray, before Lucy was old and tired, and before Chicago Tribune gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (who plays herself in this one) was dead and gone. You won't have Lucy to kick around much longer. Ch. 56, 7: 30 p.m. 1 hour...