Word: rooftop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very much, except to hurl a few jeers of "whitey" at him. Ironically, it was Washington Correspondent Wallace H. Terry II, come home to Harlem to spend four weeks working on the story, who during one riot was knocked down and out by a brick hurled from a rooftop...
GOOD TIME! (Vanguard). The three young Rooftop Singers are working well-explored territory (Rock Island Line, Old Joe Clark, It Don't Mean a Thing), but they make the songs worth hearing again because of their style and a gleeful spontaneity reminiscent of the early Weavers...
Lyndon Johnson, it is well known, likes dancing parties. But in Washington these sweltering days, even the two-step is hot work. Thus, after a state dinner for visiting Costa Rican President Francisco Orlich and his wife Marita, President Johnson took his guests out onto the low-lying rooftop adjoining the east wing, only a few hundred feet from the street, where they danced under Japanese lanterns that swayed in the cooling breeze...
Changed Signs. In Manhattan, instead of WHITE ONLY, the signs said DISHWASHER WANTED. So Poitier washed dishes. He slept in 5? pay toilets or, if the weather was warm, on a rooftop. He joined the army in 1943, lying about his age, which was 16. He was made an orderly in a mental hospital, and a little over a year later was discharged with nervous complications...
...slightly older kid, she used to go up on the rooftop, smoke, and think about being the greatest star. Down in the apartment, her mother warned her never to hold hands with a boy. "I never took part in any school activities or anything," Barbra remembers. "I was never asked out to any of the proms, and I never had a date for New Year's Eve. I was pretty much of a loner. I was very independent. I never needed anybody, really...