Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GRAMS BILL QUAINTANCE Rock Island...
Cause of the landslide was the peaceful Nicolet River. About 15 years ago, the river changed its course and left only a dry bed near the school and the cathedral. Apparently an underground stream continued to flow beneath the old river bed. eroding the soil and rock to form a natural tunnel that finally collapsed. One consolation was that the crash came on a Saturday; on a schoolday the death toll might have run into hundreds...
Only You (The Platters; Mercury). The rock-'n'-roll set is gobbling this one up fast. Its gimmick: a regular snapping sound on the offbeat, like a whipcrack. The lead singer, presumably frightened by that whip, shrieks in a quivering, gasping falsetto. A nerve-racking specimen of the continuing rock-'n'-roll dementia...
Students driving to New Haven before early Saturday morning who wish to take the fastest routes from the Wilbur Cross Turnpike are advised to get off at either the Whitney Ave. exit at Hamden or the Whaley Ave. exit after the West Rock Tunnel and follow the turn-offs direct to the Yale campus...
...gestures open out; he falls on a knee and thumps the stage; his hairdo collapses; he begins to get his teeth almost literally into his material, worrying the lyrics like a terrier with an old boot, biting off the sugary phrases as if they were sticks of seaside rock. In an atmosphere of rising hysteria, the screams mount, the band blasts. Those who would like to leave dare not, for fear of lynching...