Word: lameing
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...with Liberace, it was manner and clothes that made the man. Playing the 20,000-seat Hollywood Bowl in 1952, he had a set of white tails made up "so they could see me in the back row." He had a little gold lame jacket added in Las Vegas and, says Liberace, "what started as a gag became a trademark...
Died. Dorothy Dandridge, 41, Negro singing star, who in the 1950s ruled the supper clubs with her stunning beauty, gold lame-clad figure and torch songs (Love Isn't Born, It's Made), later turned to films, giving starring performances in Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess, but then saw the torch dim, was forced into bankruptcy in 1963; of a stroke; in Hollywood...
...ever more dazzling visions of the Great Society. The Best. At the National Institutes of Health in suburban Bethesda, Md., where he signed a bill authorizing a $280 million program of medical research, Johnson quoted from the Bible (Acts 8: 5-7) on curing the palsied and the lame, promised that "this bill will accomplish the miracles of which today we only dream." His Administration's goal, he said, is nothing less than "complete eradication" of children's deaths from rheumatic fever, substantial reduction of the rate of death from heart disease, and elimination of malaria and cholera...
...spectators in a stadium that holds nearly 45,000. With their noses out of joint because of the Braves' decision to leave, Milwaukee county supervisors last week scorned Owner William Bartholomay's $500,000 offer to let the team blow town, thus dooming the Braves to lame-duck along in the ghostly silence of Milwaukee County Stadium, winning games and whistling Dixie...
...Upheld a lower federal court order requiring New York to hold a special legislative election on Nov. 2. The elec tion will be held under "Plan A," the first of four reapportionment plans passed last December by a lame-duck Republican legislature. The State Su preme court voided all four, noting specifically that Plan A violated a state constitutional provision against a lower house of more than 150 members. A three-judge federal court overturned that ruling on the grounds that some reapportionment action must be taken...