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...infatuation with U.S. rock 'n' roll in the late '50s and early '60s, the Shadows dressed in shiny suits, toted red Fender Stratocaster guitars and danced a uniquely British three-step shimmy into the charts with songs such as Apache and Kon Tiki. As the backing band for Cliff Richard, they had other hits including Living Doll and Travellin' Light...
...from the ground to infinity. This means that a swath of New Mexico is uniquely situated for a spaceport since no planes or satellites can pass through the area reserved for rocket launches and landings. State officials are scheduled to announce a partnership this week with Virgin Group founder Richard Branson to launch a fleet of ships--based on the Ansari X Prize--winning SpaceShipOne design--that will take tourists up to 400,000 ft. on a two-hour journey. Passengers can cover the $200,000 fare, Virgin Atlantic declared last week, by redeeming 2 million frequent-flyer miles...
...Joseph McCarthy. But the savor of March '68 didn't last long. Robert Kennedy defeated him in the June 5 California primary, then was shot dead that night. Hubert Humphrey, favorite of the party bosses, was nominated at a Chicago convention that was chaos inside, carnage on the streets. Richard Nixon won the general election, and the war raged another seven years...
When he broke into TV in the mid-1960s, on shows like Merv Griffin and Ed Sullivan, RICHARD PRYOR--who died last week of a heart attack at age 65--was a cute, rubber-faced young comic with a knack for physical comedy and a childlike sweetness; in one of his earliest bits, he impersonated a band of scared grade-schoolers performing Rumpelstiltskin. Within a few years, he had become America's most celebrated comic revolutionary. Frustrated with the safe material he was doing on TV and in nightclubs, he walked out on a gig in Vegas, moved to Berkeley...
...article should make all of us scream at our elected officials that Americans never condone torture in any form by anybody. Our government should do what its citizens want. I am afraid of what we would find if we opened up the can of worms that is the CIA. Richard Snider Cumberland, Maryland...