Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes has only grass to eat; serving a grueling apprenticeship at village fiestas where the only available medical care is a slosh of alcohol in an open wound; rising under the tutelage of a crafty promoter named El Pipo, compiling a fortune of $8,000,000 and becoming the idol and symbol of a new, liberalized and more commercially aggressive Spain...
...albums, all of which reached the charts-he recently signed a contract to develop new talent for Columbia Records. Guercio quit college "when John Kennedy died and the Beatles were born," went on the road with such groups as Chad & Jeremy and The Mothers of Invention. Like his idol, the late avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse, he is given to such pronouncements as, "A record is sound forever, not just a disk of plastic," and, "I'm desperately trying to wake the world...
...become an idol of the New Left. Posters invoking his memory are carried by student demonstrators, and half a dozen books by or about Che have been published since his death. Among them are two editions of Guevara's recollections of the Cuban insurrection in the Sierra Maestra. Several publishers have tried to pry Che's 30,000-word Bolivian diary out of the hands of the Bolivian army, which seized it, but so far all such negotiations have bogged down...
Some movie fans just won't settle for sitting through endless reruns of their idol's films or collecting faded photographs. San Francisco Restaurateur Frederick Reeve has always had a passion for Humphrey Bogart, and when he heard of plans to scrap Bogie's African Queen, the grand old tub in which he and Katharine Hepburn chugged down the Ulanga in their 1951 movie, well, something had to be done. So Reeve flew to Nairobi, bought the old girl for $750, now plans to refurbish her for $10,000 more and haul the craft around the country...
King Vinnie. What he hears is that Carl Yastrzemski didn't just hit home runs, but "accomplished the ninth labor of Hercules, bringing a championship to Boston, a city whose previous baseball idol, Ted Williams, resembled that other great Greek, Achilles, who fought a great fight, but spent a lot of the time sulking in his tent." On another show, Broun likened the coach of the Green Bay Packers to "Canute-king, coach and general manager of the Britons, who commanded the waves to stop, but they broke through the lines. Vinnie Lombardi hasn't tried stopping...