Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players have their own corner; the Euchre Club meets Wednesday night. Pool shooters have their table (darts are too damn dangerous). You can buy farm-fresh eggs or homemade horseradish, or leave messages on the bulletin board. No voluptuous nude behind the bar here; there is a slightly salacious wall mural painted by a customer of long ago. Summertime finds a horseshoe court set up on the edge of the parking lot, with a picnic table for kibitzers hiding in an elderly maple's shade. Regular patrons sign up for seats on chartered buses to games of the Detroit...
...90th birthday was the best of all. Two weeks earlier, Princess Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene had awakened in her Washington apartment and suddenly seen the canopy on her bed, her chest of drawers, the pictures on the wall and the sunlight through the window-for the first time in ten years. The granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant and former wife of the late Russian Prince Michael Can tacuzene, the princess had somewhat mysteriously regained, at least partially, the sight she lost after an automobile accident. Her doctor offered no explanation, but asked her: "Do you believe in miracles?" "Indeed...
...sake. John F. Kennedy is cited as one man who bridged the University-City gap and made it less respectable to criticize one at the expense of the other. "As the educational institutions have grown," observes one long-time official, "politicians have read the hand-writing on the wall: they know that the institutions are becoming generally more influential...
Died. Calvin P. Titus, 86, Congressional Medal of Honor winner during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China who, as an infantry bugler, scaled the 30-ft. Peking wall in a hail of bullets to lead his pinned-down regiment to the rescue of U.S. and European citizens; after a stroke; in San Fernando, Calif...
...classics as Misty and Island of the Blue Dolphins, is a labor of love by the same makers, Producer Robert Radnitz and Director James Clark, who keep turning out evidence that a movie can entertain, educate and enlarge the experience of youngsters without driving their parents up the wall. Miguel refreshes the spirit like a week at a mountain camp...