Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HIGH CHAPARRAL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A camel? In High Chaparral country? Right. A sweet-talking Irish cavalry trooper, played by Frank Gorshin, sells the four-footed version of the Brooklyn Bridge to Uncle Buck, claiming the animal is expert at cattle herding. Uncle Buck buys both the story and the camel -hoof, line and stinker. Repeat...
...Administration overall, Laird marches under no grand ensign. After seven months, the White House still has no catch phrase to match New Frontier or Great Society. Laird's Pentagon has no strategy label comparable to "flexible response" in Robert McNamara's day or even the "bigger bang for a buck" of Charles E. Wilson's time. Like Nixon himself, Laird seems unencumbered by?some would say unequipped with?any particularly abiding philosophy. He is the only Secretary of Defense to come from Congress. Half his life ? he will be 47 next week ? was spent as a state...
...MERV GRIFFIN SHOW (CBS, 11:30 p.m.1 a.m.). Host Merv Griffin, long popular in a syndicated talk show, goes network five nights a week, as CBS tries to buck the competition of NBC's Johnny Carson and ABC's Joey Bishop...
Golfing Decision. U.S. Trust's basic investment policies are set by a three-man leadership: Chairman Hoyt Ammidon, Vice Chairman Berkeley Johnson and President Charles Buck. The decision as to whether or not to invest is based about 20% on a company's product and ability to market it, and 80% on the bankers' personal assessment of the company's president and top management. Vice Chairman Johnson believes that "you can learn quite a bit about the ethics and personality of the man you are dealing with by playing golf or going shooting with...
...country-and-Western songs that fill up nearly one-third of Hee Haw's air time. There are top-name guests, and the hosts themselves are no slouches. Roy Clark-the one who looks like a heftier Sander Van-ocur-was twice the national banjo champion. Guitarist-Composer Buck Owens-the cross between Andy Griffith and George Segal-is a leading country recording artist...