Word: duo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearances and disappearances of TV newscasters are logged by the press with a fan-club fidelity usually reserved for grease paint performers-which perhaps they are. Thus when NBC, eying San Francisco, decided to backstop its top news team of Chet Huntley and Dave Brinkley with another duo, the New York Times duly recorded their names: Ray Scherer and Nancy Dickerson. And when Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. signed Novelist-Playwright Gore Vidal to report both the Republican and Democratic national conventions, the Times gave Vidal's assignment headline prominence-meanwhile leaving unmentioned the names of several dozen experienced Timesmen...
...foot-shuffling handkerchief-head," snapped Chicago Urban League Director Edwin Berry. "A lazy, soft-shoe jokester is an insult," added Joan Kehoe, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Both groups planned protests, and it looked like check and double check for Amos 'n' Andy, the radio duo born in Chicago in 1928, whose return in a filmed CBS television series had been announced by Chicago station WCIU. However, WCIU's President John Weigel is no man to get regusted. "When you try to expurge folklore," he retorted, "it's a bad situation, comparable to book burning...
...yard run. John Ogden has the fastest time with a 1:51.6 clocking, and Keith Chiappa has been preparing himself for Heptagonal competition with 440 work most of the spring. Brown's Farley will be the toughest competition, and Navy's John Wright should press the Crimson duo...
...indoor IC4A high jump with a Harvard record 6 ft., 9 in., will have to wait for his first varsity spring appearance to shatter the outdoor mark of 6 ft., 4 1/2 in. Senior Jack Spitzberg is the Crimson's next best, and the Pardee-Spitzberg duo gives Harvard a one-two punch no other Eastern school can match...
Together O'Toole and Burton galvanize the early scenes, making their acting duo an acting duel as they race through court and countryside flushing wild boars and wenches. Henry appropriates a peasant's daughter he finds trembling in a hut. "Shall we take her with us, or shall we have her sent?" he quips, in an anachronism that leaps centuries, but does not vitiate the pungent give-and-take of character...