Word: peach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Naismith, who invented basketball in 1891 by tacking up two old peach baskets in a Springfield, Mass., gym, once said that he preferred lacrosse. Naismith would have changed his mind if he could have seen a game like the one played last week between the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers...
...Allman Brothers' Eat A Peach is a transition album. Most of the album was recorded live before Duane's death; only the studio side was recorded after...
...announced last week that two black men are under federal indictment in South Carolina on charges of holding at least nine white migrant farm workers in peonage and involuntary servitude. The two blacks, both from Florida, are accused of holding the workers confined against their will last summer during peach picking around Spartanburg, S.C. They allegedly charged the whites exorbitant amounts for such things as wine, soap, razor blades and cigarettes, and forcibly prevented them from leaving until their debts were paid. According to the indictment, the blacks, with perhaps a backward bow to Simon Legree, beat one white migrant...
Died. James E. Allen Jr., 60, former U.S. Commissioner of Education; with his wife Florence in the crash of a sightseeing plane near Peach Springs, Ariz. Allen, who earned his doctorate in education at Harvard, won a reputation for tough-minded innovation while serving 14 years as chief of New York State's labyrinthine school system. During that period he was castigated for his stands against prayer in the schools and in favor of busing. Thus when the Nixon Administration called him to Washington in 1969, the appointment was a surprise. What followed was not. Allen was soon...
...Chaplinesque waif who collects other waifs: an English sheep dog named Arnold that seems to be on tranquilizers; an old ham actor who may or may not have toured with Eugene O'Neill's father in The Count of Monte Cristo; a grave-eyed, peach-complexioned girl (Kathleen Dabney) who is wrestling with a cello case full of shoplifted goodies when Tommy meets her in a Bloomingdale's ladies' room. The play is episodic, rather like an urban picaresque novel. Some of the encounters and adventures are wildly hilarious; others are mutely poignant. The play...