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...composer of 1,000 western, country and gospel songs, including such classics as Cool Water and Tumbling Tumbleweeds; of a heart attack; in Costa Mesa, Calif. In 1931 he formed a trio with Tim Spencer and a young cowboy singer named Leonard Slye, who later changed his name to Roy Rogers and left the group to make movies. Nolan and Spencer later formed a quartet, the Sons of the Pioneers, and appeared in dozens of films with Rogers in the 1930s...
...protest. Medvedev had struck a deal with hospital authorities that if discharged he would write nothing about his hospitalization or the struggle to get him out; when he learned that he would have to report regularly to mental health centers for follow-up care, he and his brother, Historian Roy Medvedev, published their now classic study on Soviet political psychiatry, A Question of Madness...
...under orders not to respond, "Rosalynn Cater's anger vibrated through the White House corridors" only to show up on the Time Inc. seismograph. And the talent for summation almost overwhelms. When voters told pollsters that they wouldn't support Jimmy Carter in November, "their mood was captured by Roy Brown, a food company executive in Fort Lee, N.J., who declared: 'We need a change. anything would be better than four more years of Jimmy Carter...
Despite all that, there are many black leaders who feel that little has really changed to make life for most blacks better since the dreadful days in 1967 when riots killed 43 people and left 5,000 homeless. "There is an illusion of progress," says Roy Williams, president of the Detroit Urban League. "Blacks have been deceived into thinking they have made more progress than they really have...
...filmed, and who looked-successfully-for a way to get out? Well, it wasn't Ann-Margret, who stars in the movie as a prostitute with a heavy past. She remained in focus along with Co-Stars Jon Voight, Burt Young, and the magic team of Siegfried and Roy. The tiger felt better out of the glare of the klieg lights and was only reluctantly coaxed back on camera. But the temporary escape made a nice publicity Bengal for the movie, so to speak...