Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday dawned. The weather in the gulf turned bad. Thunder rumbled across the water. Sporadic storms churned waves, and the two U.S. destroyers pitched and rolled. Despite the rough going, Maddox radar late in the afternoon again detected the presence of distant company: several tiny blips moved across the scope in tracks paralleling those of the Maddox...
...President had further good reason for choosing Pastore as keynoter. He is an orator who can wind stems with the best of them. He is a champ in rough-and-tumble debate, belts out speeches from the Senate floor without text or notes, all the while flailing and dancing about like a bantamweight going for the K.O. Says one friend: "Nobody will go to sleep while he's talking. And I hope they give him room enough on the platform to move around...
...event each year is the Grove's two-week hideout. Some 2,000 Bohemians and guests rough it in 100 different camps, ranging from tiny wooden shelters to elaborate lodges bearing bizarre names like Poker Flat, Star and Garter, Bald Eagle, River Liars and Lost Angels. The Grove routine is pretty shapeless, although each year a couple of glittering original shows are staged beneath the trees. This year the Bohemians did a musical about murder in a whorehouse called Dammit. Who Done It? in which, presumably, the moral was that too many crooks spoil the brothel. Occasionally, particularly learned...
Died. Hermann Hagedorn, 82, biographer of Theodore Roosevelt, a sometime playwright who, after meeting the old Bull Moose at a rally in 1916, became an armchair Rough Rider, devoted the rest of his life to chronicling the T.R. legend in five highly readable, painstakingly detailed books (The Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill); of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...current 75-minute production of the O'Neill is, in conception, a masterpiece; in execution, not far below--thanks to Jones and his collaborators seen and unseen. At the opening performance there were only a few rough edges, notably in the dancers ensemble rhythm...