Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss America Pageant (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The 43rd Miss America Pageant, live from Atlantic City, N.J. Bert Parks hosts for the ninth consecutive year...
...dreadful pageant that seems to haunt Novelist-Historian Zoe Oldenbourg began on a hot, still day in 1209, when a French army took the city of Béziers, a bastion of one of history's most romantic territories. The region covered all of present-day southern France. Its palaces were rich in art and dominated by the codes of courtly love. Its tongue was a strange and musical dialect that had given the region a flourishing literature of poetry and was to give it a name-Languedoc (for langue d'oc, literally, the language...
...film has its funny moments, some of them intentional. A small boy, forced to play an angel in a Christmas pageant, grimly determines to make the best of a bad situation-on top of his halo he wears a Stan Musial cap. But most of the film is intolerable Technicolored tarradiddle, absolutely the worst movie ever directed by the illustrious John Ford (The Informer, Stagecoach). Watching him make such stuff is like watching Escoffier make mudpies...
Miss Universe Beauty Pageant (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). John Daly, Arlene Francis and Gene Rayburn act as hosts as Miss Universe 1963 is chosen in Miami Beach...
...pageant in Washington, D.C., a sailor emptied a pistol at a spectator who refused to rise for The Star-Spangled Banner, and the crowd cheered. In Hammond, Ind., a jury took only two minutes to acquit the assassin of an alien who yelled: "To hell with the U.S." In Waterbury, Conn., a salesman was sentenced to six months in jail for remarking that Lenin was "one of the brainiest" of the world's leaders...