Word: petition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Well," sighed one tape watcher in the Beverly Hills office of Ira Haupt & Co., "now I've got 30% less than I had last Friday." A young Chicago couple stared glumly at their living room wall, where a petit point sampler proclaimed "God Bless Fairchild Camera." Across the land, 15 million investors reluctantly emerged from a dreamland of perpetual capital gains and grimly focused their attention on the citadel of U.S. capitalism at Broad and Wall Streets in lower Manhattan...
Died. May Bonfils Stanton, eightyish, elder daughter of the Denver Post's late Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils, who fell out with her father over her first marriage, lived much of her life in semi-seclusion in a 20-room marble copy of Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon, and pursued a 30-year feud with her younger sister-and current Post boss-Helen Bonfils Davis with such intensity that the Post was not even informed of May's death, got scooped on the obituary by the rival Rocky Mountain News; after a long illness; in Denver...
...Hollywood's latest inn-fighting, fading Love Goddess Rita Hayworth, 43, and dour Cinemactor Gary Merrill, 46, chose the celebrity-crowded Au Petit Jean to exchange dialogue that would make longtime California Neighbor Henry Miller blush and that did in fact bring hysterical tears from their dinner companion. Rita's daughter (by the late Aly Khan). Princess Yasmin, 12. Soon bounced from the restaurant, the fractious couple were carted off in separate cars. Next day Rita, who has been capering on two continents with Gary ever since her fifth divorce last September, proclaimed that the Thirty Minutes...
...recorded snatches of the performance, played them back while Tudor and friend banged on. After more such pyrotechnics, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire sounded almost romantic. At concert's end Keleman waited nervously for the commissar's reaction. Schoenberg, said Vucinic, was merely a "hybrid"-a musical petit bourgeois. "I prefer the outright revolutionary techniques," Keleman sighed with relief. Before the festival ended, the surprising official response had started the hottest rumor in the Yugoslav musical world: the Communist Party itself may commission an electronic work to celebrate the opening of the next Yugoslav party congress...
...Louis XIV at Versailles, while grand dukes and marquises vied to hold a candle or the King's nightshirt. As soon as the last light was snuffed out, Louis XV scrambled out of bed, scurried up a secret staircase and bedded down comfortably in his own cozy petit appartement. In the morning the whole absurd ritual began again in reverse...