Word: parker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a six-year U.S. Government mission in India, Illinois-born Dr. Frank W. Parker, 67, was appalled by the millions of sacred cows roaming the land, dangerously overgrazing the fields, eating food desperately needed for human consumption. Because of Hindu religious scruple, the cows can neither be slaughtered nor eaten. There are even old cows' homes...
...children, with neither parent present. Dr. Murphy was subjected to a grueling eight hours of examination and cross-examination by Happy's attorney, during which he became visibly angry. Happy was on the stand for seven hours. She was not happy when her first cousin, Mrs. Richard S. Parker, turned up to testify for Dr. Murphy and pointedly ignored her in order to sit next to Dr. Murphy's new wife. In fact, all during the trial Happy seemed a rather forlorn figure. Governor Rockefeller apparently considered it inappropriate to accompany her, and only occasionally did Happy have...
Coach Harry Parker's boat had beaten every college crew in the country and Parker felt his oarsmen were among the best. He broke up the boat into two "fours," and the "four with cox" proved him accurate by scoring a one-length victory in a second series of Olympic trials in August...
...written out his frustrations in a 1,500-page manuscript. Beneath the Underdog, as the book is tentatively titled, deals with racial discrimination, God, yoga, the jazz life, government subsidies, gangsters, sex, Charlie Parker, extrasensory perception, personal hardships and crises when, as Mingus puts it, "everything turns white for me." A former mental patient at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, Mingus tells anyone willing to listen: "They say I'm crazy, and I really...
...playing a tart. Sadie Thompson or maybe Nana. Or sometimes Mildred, the strumpet waitress who dishes out the spice and spite in Somerset Maugham's classic autobiographical novel of the torments of young manhood. Bette Davis flashed on-screen as the first movie Mildred, in 1934. Eleanor Parker entered a low bid in 1946. Now, all Mildred's beads, feather boas, and skin-tight finery bedizen the substantial person of Kim Novak. Though the film will give ordinary moviegoers little pleasure, it may well set Bette Davis to snapping her garters in glee...