Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteer teachers from the U.S. Peace Corps descended on Ghana last August, even the most sympathetic of observers in Africa were skeptical. Recalls one foreign-service veteran: "I was convinced that the Peace Corps would be just another hit-and-run set of do-gooders in Bermuda shorts and button-down shirts." But in Ghana, where it is undergoing one of its first real field tests, the Peace Corps so far has been a most pleasant surprise...
...Fashioned Thanksgiving (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Charlton Heston, Eddie Foy Jr., Dick Button, Betty Johnson, Richard Kiley, Comedians Bob and Ray, and Gene Barry in a musical special with gobble gobble gobble as the leitmotiv...
...University Health Services, in Cooperation with similar groups at Tufts, B.U. and M.I.T., has decided that there is no need to push the panic button. Flu epidemic scares come up every year and Prout has the whole scare as a "little bit of crying wolf." At any rate, the disease itself is not serious and usually for no more than four days...
...sunny place for shady people"; its ravines and ridges sparkle with the swimming pools and haciendas of the international rich, and the campesinos have learned not to be surprised at anything. But the goings-on in a 150-room stone and adobe villa across the way from Barbara Button's $1.5 million place are causing talk. Some say that the place is a nest of Communists, some that it is a training center for an illegal Roman Catholic underground. The Red newspaper, Politica, charged that it was a "penetración Yanqui." And some of the inmates of Villa...
...crime shows want to impress Minow too. The FCC chairman thinks television is unfit for human consumption, does he? A cultural slag heap? They'll show him. Result: the cultured, well-heeled flatfoot. Robert Taylor's retooled Detectives (NBC) now wear button-down collars, glen plaid suits, and shoot professorially from the mouth. "A beatnik," said one Taylor gumshoe last week, "is a vagrant with intellectual pretensions.'' ABC's The New Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly...