Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liverpool crowd poured across the stand, the Juventus fans panicked. Hundreds made a rush for the nearest exit, beyond a low wall at the bottom of the sloping spectator terrace. Some managed to clamber over the wall, dropping to the ground on the other side. Hundreds more were trapped, crushed by the weight of the crowd. Then, with a sickening crack, the concrete wall collapsed, killing some and spilling others onto the field in a murderous cascade of bodies and fractured concrete...
...There was a mass of crushed bodies," said Renzo Rocchetti, a Juventus supporter from Milan. "I saw people trampled to death under the feet of the frightened mob, stepping on their bodies, including many babies and children." Remarked an off-duty British policeman among the Liverpool supporters: "Those poor bloody Italians went down like a pack of cards...
Born near Liverpool into an upper-middle-class family, Harrison started acting professionally when he was only 16. "Those were the days when people said that only fish and actors travel on Sundays, and I toured for ten solid years. Nobody saw me, and I was bloody awful. But at least I learned my craft." People, meaning London critics and producers, began seeing him on the West End in 1931. By the beginning of World War II he had established a reputation in Britain and was able to sleep late on Sundays, just like any other English gentleman...
Rosovsky and Tassel also selected several photographs by Francis Frith, a greengrocer who left his, shop in Liverpool in 1858 to take pictures of the Holly Land, and others by Sgt. James McDonald, who made his "Ordinance Survey of Jerusalem" for the British Army...
Catherine Stroud Vodrey East Liverpool, Ohio...