The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[memento]

While Jack and Ennis herded sheep up on Brokeback, John Profumo declared he lied about his relationship with Christine Keeler. He left his charge as Minister of War and member of the Parliament. [June 4]

[Fran]

While Jack and Ennis herded sheep up on Brokeback, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale struck Skopje, Yugoslavia, killing over 1,000 people and leaving another 100,000 homeless.  (July 26)

-- BBC News

[southendmd]

While Jack and Ennis herded sheep up on Brokeback, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state-mandated Bible reading in public schools is unconstitutional in Abington School District v. Schempp.  (June 17 Wikipedia)

[memento]

While Jack and Ennis herded sheep up on Brokeback, Paul McCartney threw a party at his Auntie Gin's house in Birkenhead to celebrate his twenty-first birthday. A huge tent was erected in the garden, and the cream of Merseybeat tucked into a big cake. (June 18)

[Fran]

Jack and Ennis were herding sheep up on Brokeback when, on August 5, 1963, after more than eight years of difficult negotiations, Britain, the US, and the USSR signed a nuclear test ban treaty. 

The Limited Test Ban Treaty:

• prohibited nuclear weapons tests or other nuclear explosions under water, in the atmosphere, or in outer space
• allowed underground nuclear tests as long as no radioactive debris fell outside the boundaries of the nation conducting the test
• pledged signatories to work towards complete disarmament, an end to the armaments race, and an end to the contamination of the environment by radioactive substances.

-- OurDocuments.gov   

[southendmd]

While Jack and Ennis herded sheep up on Brokeback, Vostok 6 carried Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman, into space.

[memento]

While Jack and Ennis herded sheep up on Brokeback, Margaret Court Smith beat Billie Jean King in the Women's Singles at the seventieth Wimbledon tennis championship. (July 6, 1963)

[Fran]

While Jack and Ennis were herding sheep up on Brokeback, Pope John XXIII, one of the best-loved popes of modern times, passed away.  (June 3) 

-- Infoplease.com 

         


Please announce Round 620.

[Toast]

Round Six Twenty
I Loved You Plenty -
But Now Only In My Dreams ..

Around that time Jack began to appear in his dreams, Jack as he had first seen him, curly-headed and smiling and bucktoothed, talking about getting up off his pockets and into the control zone, but the can of beans with the spoon handle jutting out and balanced on the log was there as well, in a cartoon shape and lurid colors that gave the dreams a flavor of comic obscenity. The spoon handle was the kind that could be used as a tire iron. And he would wake sometimes in grief, sometimes with the old sense of joy and release; the pillow sometimes wet, sometimes the sheets.
There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
......................
He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream.

The stale coffee is boiling up but he catches it before it goes over the side, pours it into a stained cup and blows on the black liquid, lets a panel of the dream slide forward. If he does not force his attention on it, it might stoke the day, rewarm that old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong.

[Toast]

Ennis absently goes on with his life, recalling - in his dreams - the old days with Jack on the Mountain.