Word: spectors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music has never been an easy profession for women. Recognition and glamour are common enough, but women looking for artistic control and financial leverage are usually thwarted. The Crystals and the Ronettes were high on the pop charts in the early '60s, but Phil Spector, multifaceted rock tycoon, wrote the lyrics, produced the records and pocketed most of the profits. In the '60s the men who sold pop music saw women as petulant screamers (Lesley Gore) or filigreed folkies (Judy Collins). Occasionally, women defied the image makers. Janis Joplin and Grace Slick escaped briefly from San Francisco psychedelia...
...Watergate seemed to be a decisive factor in Philadelphia, where a notable Republican incumbent, District Attorney Arlen Spector, 43, was defeated by a Democratic virtual unknown, Attorney F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, 43. A popular campaigner who was slated for higher office, Spector had the backing of Philadelphia's Democratic Mayor Frank Rizzo. Both had been ardent supporters of Nixon, and this became a Fitzpatrick asset. On Election Day, Republicans did not get out enough of the vote, while the Democratic machine did its traditional duty; even its entire slate of 39 Court of Common Pleas judgeships was elected. "Watergate...
Phase Outs. Harder hit are farmers, who have to get gas delivered to them; many predict that a shortage will impair their ability to harvest crops this fall. Truckers are also hurting. Chicago's Spector Freight System Inc., for example, expects to spend $1,000,000 more this year because of a 7?-a-gallon jump in the wholesale price of diesel fuel. Before the freeze, prices were rising at the corner gas station as well; in Boston they went up 2? a gallon in the past week. The Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, whose members...
...appeal is the intensity of his emotion, and its closeness to each of us, but its most striking feature is its very lack of the quaint idealism that pervaded earlier love songs. (Like "Chapel of Love," or "To Know Him Is To Love Him," or anything else that Spector did before the sixties). The closeness to harsh reality, when it isn't frightening in its familiarity, is refreshing...
Attorney General Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, in his brief, requested the opportunity to argue on the issue of the death penalty's constitutionality as applied in his state...