Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beach Party is an anthropological documentary with songs. Robert Cummings, in ambush behind a wind-Schwepped beard, is gathering material for a book on teen-age sex play. Just outside his window at Balboa Beach, the puberty rites and other coming-of-age-in-California shenanigans of a tribe of overripe adolescents are in full cry, and Cummings' telescope and electronic eavesdropping rig provide him with an eye-opening earful...
When three Negro families moved into "Canaryville," an old Irish, all-white neighborhood on Chicago's seamy South Side, whites hurled rocks and bottles at the newcomers' windows. In ugly retaliation, a band of Negro youths smashed a window of a passing automobile, injuring a two-year-old white child. When the father got out to protest, the Negroes beat him with fists and baseball bats. More than 100 police cars rolled into the neighborhood to keep order, but by week's end, despite 133 arrests, 15 people had been injured in racial disorders...
...neighbors back home in New Mexico considered McCanless as loco as a headless road runner. He has embarked on history's last Long Trail Drive, across macadam highways and through skyscraper-canyoned cities at the head of his herd-which consists of one aged cow with a plastic window in her side...
...Fence." The grandson of a pioneer, Scandalous John was once a gifted college veterinary professor; after years of research he had succeeded in keeping a cow alive with a four-stomach picture window. But McCanless' impersonal superiors didn't care enough to look through it. Then John's wife died. Then he lost his teaching chair after he took to packing a Colt .44 to class. He fell behind on the mortgage on the family ranch...
...bloody end on a city sidewalk in a confrontation with an uncomprehending guardian of the sanitary code. It's probably just as well, in view of an alternative offered the hero along the way: a job developing a chimpanzee with a window in its stomach for use in aspirin commercials...