Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Papa Doc") Duvalier that the country is hardly in better shape than when it won independence from France in 1804. Determined to give Selassie a proper reception, the government scraped deep into its depleted treasury for $100,000, used it to plant flagpoles along the two-mile length of road from the airport to the capital of Port-au-Prince, place festive flags all over the city and pour fresh concrete along part of the route so that the Lion of Judah would not be overcome by dust. The high point of Selassie's crowded, one-day visit...
DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* "The Road to Lebanon" has Thomas teaming up with Bing Crosby for a "Road . . ." parody. Claudine Auger, Hugh Downs and Sheldon Leonard are posted along the route, and Bob Hope makes a brief appearance-to protest...
...Road Show. While the negotiations go on, plans for the World Journal remain just that-little more than a few pasted-up pages. Because the unions forbid anyone to work for the new corporation until a contract has been signed, the paper's editors have not even been able to run off one dummy issue. "It's going to be like opening a show on Broadway without an out-of-town try-out," says Editor Frank Conniff. "The cast will be getting together for the first time just twelve hours before opening-night curtain...
Died. Sydney Allard, 55, British sports-car manufacturer, the first to fit high-performance U.S. engines to rugged, road-holding British bodies, turning out a succession of highly prized Cadillac-Allards, Chrysler-Allards and Ford-Allards (in which he won the grueling 3,300-km. Monte Carlo Rally in 1952); of cancer; in Esher, England...
...exceptional to see players win or lose $50,000 or so of an evening. Since gambling was legalized in 1960, it has been taken up by just about everyone. Little old ladies now venture their shillings in flourishing bingo halls like the Burnt Oak off Edgware Road, and Britons placed $7,000,000 worth of bets on the March 31 election...