Word: rooftop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time that banjo had ever been out of his hands, and Gus Cannon's neighbors had to get used to nights without his music. But just when poverty seemed to have him silenced, at 79, the old man made it as a composer: a group called the Rooftop Singers recorded Walk Right In and soon it walked right up among the top hits in the country...
...least seven other East German refugees made it across last week. One man jumped from a rooftop to an elevated railway signal tower, then scrambled across the tracks to leap 20 feet into the waiting arms of West Berlin cops. Another suffered eight fractures when he stepped on a Communist land mine on the border, nevertheless crawled 13 hours through forests to reach the West...
...Real Independence." In Algiers itself, meanwhile, militiamen loyal to the Politburo surged out of hiding and seized control of the casbah in rooftop fighting. From Oran, where lie had fled four days earlier to avoid arrest by Wilaya 4 troops, Ahmed ben Bella slipped into Algiers, dressed in woman's clothing. There, in return for a ceasefire, Rebel Leader Colonel Hassan agreed to evacuate the city and to confine his routed, discredited forces to one of the suburbs...
...file of soldiers wearing red berets and paratroop uniforms edged through the narrow, dark alleys of Algiers' casbah. A shot from a rooftop tumbled one of the soldiers onto the garbage-strewn cobbles, triggering a savage, five-hour battle in which brother killed brother. As the fighting spread, a veiled Moslem woman in a doorway rocked back and forth in grief, keening, "How can this happen? How can this happen...
...inevitable shapely models splashed to music in a rooftop pool, the Boston-based Sheraton Corp. last week opened its new, $12 million Sheraton Motor Inn on Manhattan's West Side. Billed as the "world's largest motel," the 20-story Motor Inn sits improbably among tatty warehouses beside the piers where the transatlantic liners dock, and offers its customers, along with free parking, a spectacular view of the Hudson. Judging from the first curious-tourist turnout, business should be good. But far from taking this as encouragement to go on to even bigger things. Sheraton President Ernest Henderson...