Word: carson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...SOUND OF MURDER echoes in the voices of a wife and her lover who plot the perfect solution to a husband who won't grant a divorce. The drama, by William Fairchild, stars Jeannie Carson, Hurd Hatfield and Biff McGuire. Dennis, Mass., Aug. 11-16; Skowhegan, Me., Aug. 18-23; Ivoryton, Conn...
Novelist Jacqueline (The Love Machine) Susann was propped up in bed in her Manhattan apartment sleepily watching Johnny Carson chat with Author Truman (In Cold Blood) Capote on the Tonight Show. Suddenly she realized that they were talking about her. "A truck driver in drag," Capote was saying. "A born transvestite" who wears "marvelous wigs and sleazy dresses," he continued, "would have been so great" as Myra Breckinridge. Before the angry authoress was out of bed next morning, she had lawyers on the phone discussing damage suits against Capote and NBC. As for why Capote chose to attack...
...spite of its defenders, the use of DDT has already declined sharply. In 1962, when Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, the U.S. produced 167 million Ibs. Last year production slipped to 138 million Ibs., nearly 80% of which was exported. Not only has adverse publicity curtailed the chemical's use; its efficiency has been impaired by the resistance developed by many strains of insects. One scientist estimates that 150 pests formerly controlled by DDT are now immune to it. Nor do scientists expect to produce a new all-purpose bug killer. Instead they are emphasizing more subtle and selective...
...Anglo. Reies Lopez Tijerina, 45, is trying to establish a "Free City State of San Joaquin" for Chicanos on historic Spanish land grants in New Mexico; at the moment, while his appeal on an assault conviction is being adjudicated, he is in jail for burning a sign in the Carson National Forest. Denver's Rudolfo ("Corky") Gonzales, 40, an ex-prizefighter, has started a "Crusade for Justice" to make the city's 85,000 Mexican Americans la causa-conscious...