Word: welched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eleven days the Welches were as isolated as if they had been marooned in Antarctica. The blizzard that swept over their home 35 miles south of Buffalo left drifts that were 15 ft. high. When five-year-old Craig ran a fever of 105°, getting a doctor was out of the question. Elizabeth Welch brought down her son's temperature by simply packing him in what was closest at hand: snow. Last week the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finally rescued the family of four by breaking through the sea of white with a roar of snowblowers...
...uncanny resemblance," says Actor Peter Boyle about his lookalike, the late Senator Joseph McCarthy. Boyle, 40, stars as the Red-baiting chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in NBC's Feb. 6 movie, Tail Gunner Joe. The film, which also features Burgess Meredith as Lawyer Joseph Welch, Patricia Neal as Senator Margaret Chase Smith and George Wyner as Roy Cohn, spans McCarthy's life from his teen-age years to his death in 1957. The title comes from a bizarre publicity stunt staged during his World War II Marine days. To look like a hero back...
Singer Charles Aznavour sawed ample Actress Raquel Welch in half; Kootchy-Kootchy Girl Charo cavorted with trained sea lions. The occasion: a French-American amateur-circus gala in Santa Monica, Calif., held to raise money for a pair of show business charities. During rehearsals, the big top's top attraction promised to be Actress Valerie Perrine riding a 2½-ton elephant named Misty. As Perrine and pachyderm practiced, Misty got rambunctious and almost turned the startled actress into a barefront rider. No matter. "I adore Misty; I wish I could buy an elephant," gushed Valerie. "Just one more...
Monday night, the Cultural Survival Group is showing Margaret Mead's "New Guinea Journal," with a discussion afterward, at Lesley's Welch Auditorium at 7 p.m., $2.00, all inclusive...
Chuck McDermott and Wheatstraw. Fine country music from McDermott, 15-year-old Tina Welch (with a voice like butter, my friends say), Rocky Stone and Red Green. August 13 at the Zircon in Somerville...