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Reggie Rivers, an African-American former NFL player who is heterosexual, equated the current climate of socially acceptable discrimination against homosexuals with the overt discrimination against blacks in the 1950s...
...Broadcast" came out) and as his career ripened he had to adjust. In "Here Come the Waves" he was still playing a crooner who makes the girls scream, but here he was impersonating not himself but the younger Sinatra, who had become the bobbysoxer's rage. By the 1950s Crosby was part of a parade of aging male stars (Bogart, Cooper, Gable) making love to actresses young enough to be their daughters. For Bing, art was mirroring life: He was costarring with Coleen Gray, Nancy Olson, Debbie Reynolds and (twice) Grace Kelly, even as he courted and married actress Kathryn...
Sharon's past military experience certainly indicates that he will take a heavy-handed approach to diplomacy. In the 1950s, he led Israeli troops in an attack on a Jordanian village, killing 69 civilians, most of whom were women and children. He has also been credited with engineering the 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila during Israel's disastrous attempt to root the Palestinian Liberation Organization out of Lebanon. After this episode, he was the subject of an inquiry commission by his own government, which found him indirectly responsible for the massacre...
DIED. O. WINSTON LINK, 86, photographer whose elegiac shots mourned the departure of steam engines from American railroads in the 1950s; in South Salem, N.Y. He was found dead in his car outside a train station near his home. Link covered 2,300 miles of track on his journeys, later saying, "I was one man, and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could...
...1950s scandals, as befits a simpler time, involved simpler skulduggery. It was cut-and-dried: contestants were given answers and were ordered to win or to lose. Stillman's claim, even if proven, shows something much fuzzier. We're not talking about Mark Burnett and Jeff Probst dumping out the ceremonial conga drum and stuffing it with "STACEY" ballots in their own handwriting. The notion is that producers indirectly - through pleading? Coaxing? Leading interview questions? - caused contestants to change their minds. Which led them to vote differently. Which led to contestants' being voted off in a different order. Which...