Word: sol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manhattan balletomanes had been waiting for months, and now the Royal Ballet was actually in town. Impresario Sol Hurok's Barnum-sized package included 500 tons of scenery, 160 people, and the most spectacular new dance partnership in half a century: Dame Margot Fonteyn and Russian Defector Rudolf Nureyev, starring in a ballet created expressly for their extraordinary talents...
...Russian buildup in Cuba; Reporting under deadline pressure-Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon, and William Longgood, New York World Telegram & Sun, for reporting of March 1, 1962, American Airlines jet crash at Idlewild; Reporting without deadline pressure-Oscar Griffin, Jr., Pecos, Tex., independent, for publishing first articles on Billie Sol Estes...
Programs devoted to smoking and cancer, birth control, Norman Mailer, Sol Hurok and student political activity have been arbitrarily canceled; now Korn insists that James Baldwin and Harry Belafonte will not suffice for a show on the American Negro. Since Susskind refuses to enlarge the panel, Korn has called a press conference at which their association will probably be "severed with deep regret...
Finally, a verdict was reached. Billie Sol was found guilty on four counts of mail fraud and one of conspiracy; he was acquitted on eight counts of mail fraud and one of transporting fraudulent securities in interstate commerce...
...waiting wasn't over. Judge Thomason said that he would not pass sentence for two weeks. When he does, Billie Sol could get a maximum of 25 years in prison on the federal charges. He has already been sentenced to eight years in jail on swindling charges brought by the state of Texas...