Word: dan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DAVID RIESMAN, sociologist: Richard Lyman of Stanford University is one of the few college presidents who is a real leader. He had the courage to fire a radical professor at the cost of dividing his faculty. Dan Evans was an inventive Governor of Washington. He developed an independent VISTA program. Terry Sanford [former Governor of North Carolina] is really a great leader. He developed projects for multiracial groups that influenced the educational programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society...
Directed by Ivan Reitman Written by Len Blum, Dan Goldberg, Janis Allen and Harold Ramis...
...happier developments on NBC's Saturday Night Live this past season was the unleashing of Bill Murray. A latecomer to the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, Murray had broken into the show by serving as unofficial second banana to the stars, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd and Gilda Radner. When he finally seized centerstage, he stopped being a straight man and became a live -or maybe frazzled-wire. Murray is a master of comic insincerity. He speaks in italics and tries to raise the put-on into an art form. His routine resembles Steve Martin's, with...
Flights are interrupted from time to time for fowl play. Children are invited to scratch for nickels in two sawdust piles. The winner is Dan Deaver of Gallipolis, a beaver-toothed boy who has been "nine for a week now." He finds 27 nickels. Blond Kathy Markwood, 8, of Rio Grande is top girl with 15. They receive a silver dollar and the honor of being photographed with Evans. A human in white chicken suit demands entry. A lengthy rule-book search discloses no weight limit to keep him out but he is disqualified be cause he cannot fit through...
...nation's judicial system be so unjust that Dan White of San Francisco can get off with manslaughter after committing two senseless murders, and John Spenkelink [June 4] is executed...