Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...socialism and struggle for it." Rumanian Delegate Paul Niculescu-Mizil insisted that the Russians "lacked any justification" for their actions against Czechoslovakia.* Czechoslovak Representative Evzen Erban, delivering a speech that had undergone three new drafts before the Russians finally cleared it, was under a ban not to mention the name of Czechoslovak Leader Alexander Dubcek. But when Erban defied orders and conveyed Dubcek's fraternal greetings, the hall erupted into a 90-sec-ond standing ovation...
...persuasion, the magicians threatened to hypnotize the police en masse, or, alternatively, offered to solve Rome's horrendous traffic problems. So far, neither suggestion has budged the government. The protest leader was the Magician of Tobruk, who takes his name from a childhood prediction of his father's wartime death in the Libyan city. Said he: "All we want is recognition, then we'll show what we can do. If they want spells, we'll show them...
Nubile Young Girls. Titillating though the published details were, le tout Paris concentrated its gossip on the high personages reportedly involved. Almost everyone seemed to know the name of the former Cabinet minister's wife, for instance. It all stimulated memories of the "Ballets Roses" organized during the late '50s by Andre Le Troquer, at the time President of the National Assembly. Le Troquer made a habit of wrapping nubile young girls in antique carpets and delivering the bundles to aging revelers. But that was a long time past. The choicest scandal is always the present scandal...
...Originally, Thackeray's family name was Thakre. His father decided to change the name, so Thackeray says, because of his great admiration for the writings of William Makepeace Thackeray...
...Music (paid for by friends back home), she landed a $90-a-week job playing piano at a bar in Atlantic City. To her surprise, the manager told her that she was expected to sing too. She did, and clicked immediately. It was then that she changed her name to Nina Simone because her mother disapproved of singing in public. CAMERA 5 "The blues and jazz come from my people for one reason," she says. "We are the ones who had the misery of being slaves in this country. We're the ones who had to be invisible...