Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absence of the not notably popular Maccoby. John H. Updike '54, president of the Lampoon, set Cambridge on its ear by announcing shortly there after that 'No Crimson editor can rest safe in his bed. We promise in a week to depopulate Cambridge totally of this unfortunate element...
...format is similar to What's My Line? and all the other TV guessing games. A panel of four zodiac buffs query a celebrity guest on his personal traits and then try to divine the element and sign under which he was born.* Panelists are on their honor to disqualify themselves if they know the birth date of a guest. The questions run from "Do you like money?" to "What one thing would you change about your husband?" The answers are generally guarded. Asked to describe themselves in a word or two, Guests Ed Sullivan and Jack Benny coyly...
...advice has not helped much. One does not have to be an astrological authority to be correct 25% of the time when the choices are among only four elements. And once the element is established, the panels should bat at least .333 in guessing the sign. Yet often as not, particularly with the elements, all the panelists have guessed wrong. They missed Jack Benny (Air), Robert Goulet (Fire), Carol Lawrence (Earth), and Ed Sullivan's wife Sylvia (Fire). But all the experts did guess Sullivan's element last week. He is Air. So is the show...
...calendar is divided into four element periods - Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Each pe riod is subdivided into three signs for a total of twelve...
...welcomed priests' councils in their home dioceses, none of the six bishops invited to the convention even sent his regrets. Rome seems to view the federation with some foreboding. "We are in sympathy with the priests' wishes," said a Vatican official, "but it would be a disruptive element within the church if all groups were permitted to establish national movements and then bring pressure on the church as a whole...