Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Night Vigil. Paraplegics have mostly themselves to thank for these improvements. As a result of their agitation, including such demonstrations as an all-night vigil at the Lincoln Memorial in 1973, Congress has enacted legislation to eliminate barriers that impede the mobility, employment, education and recreation of the handicapped. On the basis of these laws and the 14th Amendment (equal protection), dozens of suits have been filed in state and federal courts seeking access for the handicapped to buildings, trains, buses and airplanes. In Los Angeles, for example, a paraplegic woman, Jacqueline Selph, sued the city council because...
...advances from another man. The role is "en costume," notes Sylvia primly, and "the audience will have to wait a full 40 minutes before I give in." Viewers of future Kristel movies may be kept waiting too, but the titles suggest that it won't be a fruitless vigil. After finishing Femme, she will film The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, a murder mystery featuring Peter Fonda, Michael York and Orson Welles. Later she will star in Madame Bovary, which will be directed by Hugo Claus, 47, the father of her son Arthur, 15 months. "It's another...
...fans were grateful for that pennant and the World Series which begins tomorrow at Fenway Park. Some 6,000 showed up Wednesday morning, though not all kept the vigil through the night at Logan...
...Post Street and took up a position next to a small boxed tree in front of the Mexicana Airlines office. She had a fine view of the side entrance to the St. Francis Hotel directly across the street. Gradually the crowd grew, swelling to about 2,000. As her vigil continued, she was joined in the line at about 1 p.m. by Oliver Sipple, a man she did not know and, surprisingly, did not engage in conversation...
...removed. After she was assured that her son would be picked up at school, she waived her right to an immediate lawyer. Displaying remarkable casualness about her assassin's role, she declared that if Ford had not left the hotel when he did, she would have abandoned her shooting vigil to go pick...