Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speculations and half its entries will be comedies. Playwright Neil Simon, whose royalties in 1966 ran to $20,000 a week, will open Plaza Suite, four one-acters that have in common a Plaza Hotel locale, with George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton. Also back are Authors Norman Krasna, (Dear Ruth), Samuel Taylor...
...airliners were crashing. "I wouldn't resign," said he. "I'd see it through and make sure everything possible was done to see that it never happened again." A letter from former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who tapped Robens for the N.C.B. job in 1961, told "Dear Alf" that "the test comes when things go badly-all the more galling when it really isn't our fault but just bad luck...
...Dear Alf." The controversy erupted when a government tribunal issued a long-awaited report on the catastrophe, in which 144 died when a water-weakened tip suddenly slid down its precarious mountainside site. In 151 emotion-charged pages, the report told a "terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude," scourged the National Coal Board for neglecting "the stability of tips," cited seven N.C.B. staffers (all of whom have been shifted to new jobs) as "blameworthy." Lord Robens himself got off with only a sharp rebuke for having insisted that the company "could not have known" of trouble...
...letter goes: "Dear Abby: I am with you all the way on your stand against marijuana and LSD. Don't let anyone tell you that the best colleges and universities are indifferent to its use by their students. I am enclosing (sic) a letter to the editor of the Keene, N.H. Evening Sentinel, which also runs your column. Readers always read Dear Abby, so I hope you feel this letter is worthy of publishing in your column...
MUNSONVILLE READER DEAR READER: Thank you for your fine suggestion. I agree, the letter is worth republishing. Here...