Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exactly two years after its explosion in fire, bloodshed and ugly fame, Watts last week showed a striking change of face. Two thousand youngsters worked cheerfully at $1.27 an hour to beautify the ghetto streets; 2,400 more sang and sweated to overhaul an Army camp. Trees were growing, flowers were planted, and the slum dwellers were even about to take up farming. Watts today is no man's El Dorado, but it is no longer a no-man's land. There are hopeful new blossoms in yesterday's burned-out jungle...
...citizen operators have been organized into 1,600 teams, each of which is required to maintain sufficient membership to guard citizens-band Channel 9 (a nationwide emergency channel) 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In Detroit, the Automobile Manufacturers Association operates the headquarters of HELP, whose several thousand members man a network of two-way radios designed primarily to help stranded motor vehicle drivers...
...seduction scenes often show spying observers as well as oblivious lovers. Understandably, in time miniature painting became less illustration than a literature in itself, uncommonly rich in innuendo. Its message to modern men seems simply that the message need not be writ large to be a source of a thousand and one delights...
...Sabrina Fair) and Herb Gardner (A Thousand Clowns). Krasna's Blue Hour is a Manhattan love fable. Taylor's Avanti details a triangle between an Englishwoman, an American man and the Italian bureaucracy...
...news is about the Guiness heir, son of a Beer peer, dying in his Lotus elan, sad waste of youth, but comic in its utter meaningless. The singer turns on and the song turns more dreamlike, ushering forth a complex metaphor to rank with Dylan's best. "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire/ And though the holes were rather small/ They had to count them all..."--this refers to Scotland Yard's search for bodies buried in a moor. The method they used was to sink poles in the earth and sniff the ends for the odor of decomposing flesh...