Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such unproductive infatuations. One of his zoo's prized possessions, a 5-ft.-high African shoebill stork, barely acknowledges the presence of a female acquired especially for him. Instead, he saves all the normal male shoebill signs of affection- lowered head, lively clapping of the wooden-shoe-shaped bill, peculiar gulping noises -for his caretaker. Sometimes animal passions become actively embarrassing; recently, while a repairman was crouching in an emu's enclosure, the huge, ostrichlike Australian bird decided that the intruder was a female emu and behaved accordingly. At times the sexual play verges on the pathetic...
...which will carry Julia, has had Diahann Carroll tied up for the title role since March. CBS signed Comic Flip ("Heah come de judge") Wilson for four Ed Sullivan dates next year, but NBC won exclusive rights to him for 1969-70. And CBS is reportedly trying to buy Bill Cosby away from NBC with a 20-year, $20 million deal...
...Peyton Place (pop. approx. 10,000), the first black will be a neurosurgeon. In NBC's I Spy, Bob Gulp loves his way round the world, while Co-star Bill Cosby enjoys only an occasional clinch-with a black girl...
...training. Many stations are offering on-the-job experience to likely prospects and giving preferential treatment to black applicants. Network-level Negroes include ABC's U.N. Correspondent Mai Goode and some top local newscasters on network-affiliated stations, such as Bob Teague and Gil Noble in New York, Bill Matney and Les Brownlee in Chicago, and Mel Knox in San Francisco...
White-collar women are moving ahead at a slower pace. In the U.S., where 41% of all women work, the proportion of working women classified as professional and technical has dropped from 45% in 1940 to 37% today because G.I. Bill-educated ex-servicemen have moved into these fields in larger numbers. Women as a percentage of the total work force, in the same period, increased from 26% to 36% as more blue-collar women moved into the jobs such men might have held. Determined women are still finding new opportunities. Since women buy 45% of the liquor purchased...