Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whores Came Out to Play Tennis is a surrealistic love set: Arthur Kopit 6, Drama 0. Flashy and cute rather than craftsmanlike, Playwright Kopit lobs up pseudo profundities that he avoided in his fanciful Oh Dad, Poor Dad romp. The dramatic penury of the current play may be suggested by the fact that it relies for its climax on an offstage sound effect of prepubescent outhouse humor...
...Besides Dad: George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft...
When he answered his office phone one Friday last month, Coates was not surprised to hear a husky female voice announce that Manuel Ruiz, one of a suspected gang which had relieved an armored truck of $110,000, wanted to surrender. Coates accepted the offer. "Dad's playing Dick Tracy again," quipped one of his sons. Coates appeared at the appointed hour on a lonely Los Angeles street corner. "I always do it, and I'm always scared...
...Britannia rules again. In the 1964 Olympics, Britain's Antony J. D. Nash, 28, a frustrated sports-car racer (his dad said no to a Maserati, yes to a bobsled), shocked everybody by beating Monti for the two-man gold medal. Monti thereupon decided to retire, and last week Tony Nash was back at St. Moritz with his brakeman, Robin Dixon, to defend his title of best bobsledder in the world...
...start breaking horses for local ranchers, quit school after the eleventh grade to wander the rodeo trail. "Lots of times I had to hock my watch to ride." he says. "Once I set out for a rodeo in Sulphur, Okla.. with five gallons of gas from Dad's pump. I didn't have the entry fee, but a woman who owned a dress shop gave me $30 worth of pennies she had collected. I won fourth in bareback and second in bull riding, and paid that woman back with interest...