Word: chuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of an "oldies" series. Radio stations, courting the lucrative advertising market of 18-to 34-year-olds who grew up on rock 'n' roll, carefully balance their play list of new releases with selected classics of the genre (examples: the Platters' The Great Pretender, Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven, the Everly Brothers' Bye Bye Love). New York's WOR-FM ("The Sound of Solid Gold") is one of six RKO General radio stations across the country on which the proportion of oldies is as high...
...winter nights in boarding schools, and English women of golden hockey captains." Their director, Albert McCobb, is a grotesque gourmand who is devoted to Roquefort cheese but spurns Danish blue because it is "non-ewe." McCobb may remind some readers of Alfred Hitchcock-just as an actor named Chuck Moses may be reminiscent of Charlton Heston. But the similarity is coincidental; there are no such persons as Alfred Hitchcock and Charlton Heston...
...sophomore Jim Abbott, returning to action at 191 after suffering an injury, could not take down Columbia's Chuck Vagel in the final minutes of their match to break the 1-1 tie and set up a team victory. Heavyweight Bob Panoff's ensuing 6:49 pin over Rick Wojculewski only brought Harvard close in the final score...
Sadder but presumably wiser, Illinois' freshman Senator Charles Percy last week wrote to three Chicago friends: "It was a mistake on my part not to realize that your well-intentioned desire to help would be subject to misunderstanding and misinterpretation." With that, Chuck dissolved the controversial "Percy Group," a six-month-old fund-raising campaign intended to help the Senator defray his considerable office expenses...
...Chicago Sun-Times, persisted in demanding that Percy name the contributors to his fund. He declined to do so, since some prominent Democrats were on the list, and might have been embarrassed by the disclosure. Embarrassed himself by the unfavorable publicity his fund has attracted, Percy finally decided to chuck the fund and finance office operations from his own resources...