Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recalling the wondrous first moment of love (He Touched Me), the Streisand zing for living is still the most zestful around. She polishes off a couple of lesser-known Rodgers and Hart tunes and, best of all, a ricky-tick rendition of the Fanny Brice favorite, Second Hand Rose...
...demanding Yusuf's ouster. Street demonstrations followed, and the police fired into the crowd, killing at least three. The King secured Yusuf's resignation and in his place appointed Mohammed Hashim Maiwandwal, 46, a lanky, Lincolnesque liberal who was born in a three-room mud hut and rose to prominence as Afghanistan's ambassador to Washington, London and Karachi. Maiwandwal quickly dashed off to the university and calmed the irate students. They carried him away in a heap of flowers...
Founded in 1934 by the U.S. hierarchy, the Legion started out candidly to be "a pressure group." Once a year, in early December, U.S. Catholics rose as a body in church to say: "I condemn indecent and immoral motion pictures," and promised not to patronize theaters that consistently showed such films-a pledge that zealous priests and bishops sometimes translated into open threats of boycott. In 1954, Archbishop (now Cardinal) Ritter of St. Louis ordered his Catholics to stay away from all future shows at theaters that exhibited the Legion-denounced The French Line, starring Jane Russell...
...wartime refugee, Vienna-born Bluhdorn came to Manhattan at 16, immediately went to work as a $15-a-week clerk in a cotton brokerage house. Later he rose to a $60-a-week job in a commodities house, where he learned the intricacies of that gyrating business and discovered the secret that got him going: fortunes can be made on a meager stake in international trade. At 23, he invested $3,000 and started his own export-import business in a small Manhattan office. Within eight years he had bagged his first million by buying an awful lot of coffee...
...Marseille, Conrad met and fell madly in love with the Pretender's beautiful young mistress, a luscious Hungarian named Paula de Somogyi. They ran off together and spent several idyllic weeks in a rose-covered cottage on an Alp. The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near...