Word: spellbound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cannes, three hooded bandits carrying submachine guns stole $40,000 in gems from a jewelry store while scores of tourists, out for their midafternoon promenade, watched spellbound. In Nice seven hoods burst into the Casino, shouted "Hands up'' in a French accent, took $4,000. At Beaulieu thieves even burgled the city hall, escaped with $450 in cash and stamps. One untouched enclave: Monte Carlo, perhaps because Princess Grace once romped cinematically around the Riviera with retired Cat Man Gary Grant as he unraveled a series of robberies in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief...
...Ignatius Walsh, first Irishman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. Walsh was some times a trial: whenever he paid a call, he insisted on quizzing Larry on his American history and catechism. But Curley was another, headier cup of tea: as a bug-eyed boy, Larry listened spellbound as his father and Curley conspired like Sinn Feiners about the ways to break the hated Yankee Republican grip on western Massachusetts. And always there was a recurrent theme: "Our kitchen used to be the place where some of the boys would meet, and my father would...
...sick do we have to get?" he cried. "How rotten can we be? How low can we sink as Americans before Americans rise up and say, 'Look-our heritage demands more than this; the memory of our men who have died fighting demands more than this.' " His spellbound audience exploded in a roar of applause...
...gaping absence record (he missed 51% of roll calls in 1960) make congressional hearts grow fonder. Negro Democrat Powell campaigned for Republican Dwight Eisenhower in" 1956, campaigned for Democrat Jack Kennedy in 1960. He is under indictment for filing a fraudulent income-tax return. But because his Harlem constituents, spellbound by years of racist oratory, have sent him to Congress for nine uninterrupted terms. Congressman Powell last week inherited the chairmanship of the powerful House Committee on Education and Labor...
...Spellbound...