Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* "The Road to Lebanon" has Thomas teaming up with Bing Crosby for a "Road . . ." parody. Claudine Auger, Hugh Downs and Sheldon Leonard are posted along the route, and Bob Hope makes a brief appearance-to protest...
...took second as Jim Tobin threw the ball away. Tom Anderson's infield single put men on first and second, and Mick Amick sacrificed them to second and third. Fred Prifty's single scored O'Neil, but Anderson tripped and went sprawling as he rounded third. After a brief hassle, the umpire ruled interference and Anderson got a free ride to score...
...Taking brief and irreverent swipes at "The Singing Nun," LBJ, Donald Duck--a transvestite, because only drakes are really male--and Madlyn Murray--a "paranoid, nutty and aggressive, but doing good lawsuits"--be then devoted more of his time to the draft and the recent pornography cases...
...trap-hunting campaign. To be sure, mousetraps are rather cheap in Texas: 19? a pair. In my years in Europe, New England and Tennessee, I have neither become acquainted with so many rodents nor have I met such a variety of insects as I have known in my brief Texas stay. Had I majored in entomology, Texas would be for me a veritable paradise...
...strength, insects are incommensurable with mammals; their muscle strands are relatively shorter and more numerous. A highly trained human athlete can expend energy at 20 times his basic metabolic rate, but only for a brief period; any old insect can raise the rate to 50, and keep it up for hours. It is no trick at all for a large African grasshopper to catch and kill a mouse, and giant water bugs commonly capture and devour small snakes. Almost any beetle can lift 850 times its own weight; to do as much, a man would have to lift 62 tons...