Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting the nomination on the fourth or fifth ballot. His confidence gets him over spots that would trip a man without it. Nixon, for instance, can be thrown off stride. In Newark recently, a tongue-tied toastmaster introduced "the next President of the United States, Snik Dix?er?Dick Nixon." Result: the candidate's delivery fell off. In a similar situation, Rockefeller might have guffawed...
...controversy are heard on the day-and-night conversation shows, which seem to be trying to turn TV into a talkathon. They frantically compete with each other for big-name, talkers. Joey Bishop interviews Ronald Reagan, Carson brings on Ayn Rand, Merv Griffin chats with Bertrand Russell. One night, Dick Cavett has Norman Mailer as his guest, the next night he leads a spirited discussion between James Bald win and Yale Philosopher Paul Weiss...
...Then they filmed the cars as they raced across the Bonneville salt flats; the Platformate cars always won. The films were two years in the making and cost an estimated $300,000. Even so, one ad in the series had to be junked. Some Negro viewers, led by Comedian Dick Gregory, complained that the film showing five white Platformate cars outdistancing five black cars was a demeaning insult. Nowadays, Shell is phasing out its endurance-test ads and, like most of its competitors, is running coupon contests...
Directly across the street from the Rockefeller Headquarters where the girls work are the New England Headquarters for Dick Nixon. The difference is visible. The Nixon Headquarters are neat and tidy and have a back-room but no storefront...
When I was fourteen and a collector of comic books in New York, I used to go downtown to a dirty loft its owners called The Memory Shop to trade early Batman comics for early Dick Tracy with a tough truck driver from St. Louis who fell by every month or so. He was tall and unshaven and sweaty, so it surprised me the first time when his voice revealed him a gentle nervous faggot. I would have forgotten him had I not seen him reincarnated last night as Flute, the Bellows-mender, later Thisbe, both parts executed by Woody...