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Word: dials (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Could be, and the substitute Thursday night was no farther away than a flick of the dial, where Sinatra was competing with himself as Major Marco in The Manchurian Candidate. Beside CBS's Thursday Night Movies, there is also NBC's Tuesday Night at the Movies and Saturday Night at the Movies and ABC's Sunday Night Movie. Since the three networks, now locked in a furious three-way ratings tie, can't begin yanking shows for 13 weeks, and significant ratings will not emerge before late November, these may provide the only safe haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Overstuffed Tube | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...MAGICIAN'S WIFE by James M. Cain. 233 pages. Dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Aug. 27, 1965 | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...show he was blinder than anybody. Somebody had left his irises out. 'Get him contact lenses,' I advised, and gave her a nickel. I would have made it a dime but I didn't want to corrupt her." Parts of this book appeared first in Cavalier, Dial, Dude and Gent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost Touch | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...never too late, he believes, for a sedentary, flabby man to undo the damage of neglect, to slow the aging process and regain a measure of youth. The program is spelled out in detail in his new book Physical Fitness and Dynamic Health (Dial Press; $5.95). Not only does carefully planned, all-out exercise improve circulation, but, insists Cureton (a Ph.D. in physical education), "maintenance of sound circulatory condition may even forestall the onset of serious chronic diseases" as well as strengthening the heart, easing psychological tensions and cutting mental fatigue by toning up the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physical Fitness: Never Too Late | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

...Dial 333-8260. The Democratic National Committee has been particularly helpful-even to the point of providing plane tickets for fence-mending trips back home. And, in a system set up for the freshmen, by dialing 333-8260, a Congressman can get a special National Committee phone. Through it, he can dictate onto tape any announcement or statement he wants to make. Then the committee sends the tape to radio stations in the Congressman's district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Freshman Class That Votes Like a Bloc | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

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