Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cautiously, tentatively, Seoul came back to normal. The crowded tea shops buzzed with excited conversation among Koreans who still could hardly believe their power had toppled Syngman Rhee's twelve-year rule. When the curfew was moved up to midnight, jazz bands resumed their raucous ways and the noisy, bright-lit bars were awash with tipsy revelers and eager ladies of the evening. In fact, except for a few damaged buildings and the soldiers guarding the National Assembly, there were no outward signs at all of Korea's fortnight of revolt...
...cameras along the processional route and in Westminster Abbey, then jet-flown from London. NBC's coverage will be shown in two parts, from 7:30-8:30 p.m., and earlier in the day (time to be an nounced). CBS will show its version from 11:15 until midnight...
Cruising around town in a new Brazilian version of the Alfa Romeo called the JK, Kubitschek signed autographs and shook hands by the thousands before turning up at a special midnight Mass. Out of bed after four hours of sleep, he raised a flag over the new capital, attended a joint session of Congress (where the air conditioning failed), watched a parade of 5,000 troops and 10,000 workers as 38 tons of fireworks...
...tape recording before being accepted, played a 20-minute set in the opening sessions of the two-day festival. The ten finalists played additional 20-minute sets the second evening. Tired and a little lightheaded from several rounds of Irish coffee and all that jazz, the judges retired at midnight, quickly made their choices...
Oscar Awards (NBC, 10:30-12 midnight). The annual prize fest...