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Word: chris (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MORE I SEE YOU (A&M). Chris Montez sounds like a small boy whose voice isn't about to change, but he has a sure, light touch with such standards as Fly Me to the Moon and Little White Lies, and a shy, seraphic charm with just about everything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Petticoat Slip. Such pseudoscientific testing of off-the-sidewalk critics has a great and growing impact on network programming decisions. Actress Chris Noel was dropped from CBS's forthcoming comedy series Pistols and Petticoats, with the explanation that she "pretested" badly. Every time blonde and buxom Chris came on-camera during the screening, there was an inexplicable plunge in the graph line that records the composite reaction of the button pushers. Similarly, negative readings caused the jettisoning of an entire subplot from Pistols and Petticoats, and the replacement of ten other projected series performers. The previewers have even assumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Panic Buttons | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...people call the electronic pretesting gimmick "The Machine"-when they can't think of something worse. Chris Noel, who lost $20,000 in other TV offers while waiting for the machine's verdict, says bitterly: "It's one thing to have been a bad actress, which I know I wasn't, or to have someone like the producer tell me he didn't like me. But why should some jerk they dragged in off the street have the right to push a button and say whether or not I should play in the series?" Veteran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Panic Buttons | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...Briton in three. Not only is the sport good for advertising bullion; the pirate stations have also become a symbol of the rebellion against the BBC, whose hoary morning Housewives' Choice is apt to consist of an Elvis Presley side, a Hawaiian number, a march, a Chris Barber moldy-fig opus-and, with luck, something as fresh as I Want to Hold Your Hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Of Skulls & Crossbones | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...ordered a slowdown. Then Beebe got an inspiration. To make the inevitable Ford victory all the more impressive, he decided to stage a deliberate dead heat between the leading Mark Us-No. 1, driven by Miles and Denis Hulme, and No. 2, piloted by New Zealanders Bruce McClaren and Chris Amon. Headlights blazing, the two Fords coasted across the finish line side by side at 15 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: An Affair of Honor | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

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