Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Clifford Durr, 76, Federal Communications commissioner and civil liberties lawyer; of a heart attack; in Wetumpka, Ala. On the FCC from 1941 to 1948, Durr lobbied for "public interest" channels, helping to make possible today's PBS-TV network. Later, in his native Alabama, Durr defended Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress, whose 1955 arrest for violating Montgomery's bus segregation ordinance became a landmark in the struggle for integration. ∙ Died. Leroy "Buddy" McHugh, 84, legendary police reporter; of heart disease; in Chicago. Last survivor of the brash Chicago press corps depicted in The Front Page, McHugh...
...trial of John Hill (part Mohawk Indian) and Charley Joe Pernasilice (part Catawba) for murder and attempted murder was about to end, concluding a chapter of the American tragedy called Attica. But the end was slow in coming. It took three days of lengthy deliberations before Jury Forewoman Rosa Moore, one of two blacks on the panel, finally announced the verdict on Saturday night. Hill was found guilty of murder. Pernasilice was found guilty of second degree attempted assault. The men's lawyers promised to appeal...
...also numerous senior leagues for diehard oldtimers. New York cops stay in shape by playing on a team sponsored by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson, a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic team, gets in his weekly licks in St. Paul. Out in Santa Rosa, Calif., Snoopy's creator, Charles Schulz, 52, built his own rink and trades hip checks at least three times a week with other ancients. "I find hockey to be a necessity," says Schulz. "I go out on the ice for an hour and forget everything...
Mizrahl's I Love You Rosa, an Israeli film, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 7 and 8, 7:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday's show in Science Center...
...crux of the plot, Papa Peppino (Eli Wallach) is seething with suppressed virility because Mama Rosa (Sada Thompson) has denied him the full use of the matrimonial bed for some four months. Furthermore, she does not wave to him from the balcony or lay out his clean shirts and underwear in the morning. Peppino is gripped by the delusion that his wife is having an affair with a family friend, Luigi (Ron Holgate), but he is only a platonic admirer. The real culprit? Are you ready? A plate of macaroni alla siciliana. Three plates, to be exact. Peppino gobbled them...