Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late one night last week, a slight, balding man with a hawklike nose, wearing a sharp gabardine suit and the air of an English butler, emerged from the jailer's office at the East Cambridge, Mass, jail and barked, "Gimme an aspirin, will you?" He was Joseph James ("Specs") O'Keefe, 47, and he had been talking almost continuously for three days. Outside, on the streets of Boston and all over the U.S., newspapers repeated Specs' story in huge headlines and minute detail; after six years, the $2,775,395 Brink's Inc. robbery, the largest...
French to oust the Sultan, made a practice of indignantly exhibiting like a filthy postcard a picture of the Sultan's daughter clad in a bathing suit. Aisha herself made so many speeches on female emancipation that the French Resident General ordered her to stop. When at last in 1953 El Glaoui had his way and the French packed Ben Youssef into exile with two wives and a few favorite concubines, the aroused women of Morocco were the first to unite in demand for his return. Many were killed in street fighting. Others did their strike duty at home...
...baton and conducted the singers. Probably the most remarkable fact of all: more than on any stage. The Magic Flute's fairy-tale plot seemed perfectly at home on TV, the medium of Disneyland and space cadets (in fact, Tamino's costume resembled a space suit...
...Only eight days after she lowered the women's 440-yd., free-style swimming record to 5:07, Australia's Lorraine Crapp, 17, put on her "old lucky swim suit" (the frayed shoulder straps held together with a piece of string) and competed against the clock in a Sydney saltwater pool. Result: a new world's record for the 880-yd. freestyle: 10:36.4. On the way, she churned past the 800-meter flags in a record-breaking...
First came a Jack the Ripper horror movie with Jack Palance and some blonde victims. Then it was quiet for Dr. Jekyll but Dr. Jekyll did not come. Then it was noisy. Then two identical brunettes in identical bathing suits came and it was noisier. But they just stood around. An assistant walked out with some chairs, unfolded a collapsible table, and then pointed to the wings. Suddenly dashing out, resplendent in white suit and a matching pink cumberbund tie and shirt set with a microphone behind him, was Dr. Jekyll...