Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Jimmy Boyd, 20, the freckled Tin Pan Alley flash of 1952, who sold more than 2,200,000 raspy records of 1 Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, has been an occasional TV and film actor since; and Yvonne Craig, 22, a rising cinemactress who recently completed High Time with Bing Crosby; in Dallas...
...second largest city, where today supermarkets and the luxurious Hotel Leopold II rise from the cool, 5,000-ft.-high plateau. Nor to them does any "outsider" have any right to share in the revenues of the rich mines and plants that produce and process the copper, tin, uranium, and cobalt (60% of free world output) developed by Belgium's fat Union Minière du Haut-Katanga...
...road led first to Bolivia, then in the throes of a historic revolution that dispossessed the rich of land and tin mines. In a filthy brown jacket, stained necktie and scuffed shoes, Che became a member of a group of coffeehouse leftists. He went on to Peru, Ecuador, Panama and finally to Costa Rica, a democratic haven for exiles from all over Latin America. Among them were five or six young Cubans who had been led in an attack on a Santiago barracks by a beardless young rebel named Fidel Castro on July 26, 1953-an anniversary that Fidel Castro...
...called, inevitably, The Zeckendorf; it would be 48 stories high, with 2,000 luxury rooms, ten banquet halls, 15 private dining rooms. It would cost $66 million and open in 1961. Ground was broken last summer with more fanfare: city officials and Bill Zeckendorf lined up, like Rockettes in tin helmets, and manned the air hammers...
Died. Al Hoffman, 57, top Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist, a Russian-born onetime Seattle bandleader ("I was the world's worst drummer"), who minted-with various collaborators-Mairzy Doats, Heartaches, If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake, Takes Two to Tango, and Papa Loves Mambo; after long illness; in Manhattan...