Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Idea of Conscience. The Protestants and Catholics found much to admire in each other's religious traditions. Episcopalian Herb Elliott, an engineer at the Boeing Co., liked the Catholic emphasis on attending services every Sunday; Kay Zupan, a convert to Catholicism, approved the Protestant notion of individual responsibility in spiritual matters. "Your idea of conscience is something that appeals very much to me," she told the Protestant members of the group...
...Funny Thing's" funniest things happened when Paar kept himself offscreen. Elliott Reid did an inventive impression of an entire convention, including chairman, delegates, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and the BBC. An old newsreel showed Bess Truman hopelessly trying to christen an airplane-bopping the nose a dozen times until a technician took pity on her and hammered the bottle apart. And in a technically adroit sequence, famous faces were shown orating silently as the sound track played Tony Bennett's rendition of If I Ruled the World. It began with Johnson, moved to Goldwater, then to such...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A satirical and musical special on American politics starring Elliott Reid, Tom Lehrer, the Plaza9 troupe and the Buster Davis Singers. A funny thing also seems to have happened on the way to Maine. Old Jack Paar, supposedly rusticating there, is host-narrator...
...Chevrolet division has been in trouble for some time, and last July G.M. turned it over to ex-Pontiac Boss Elliott ("Pete") Estes for some quick fixes. Chevy's styling was a bit bulgy, and its workmanship gave rise to widespread customer complaints about ill-fitting upholstery, rattling doors and leaking windows. Estes visited every one of Chevy's assembly plants, test-drove cars straight off the assembly line, and ordered repairs on the spot...
...wound up with a startling 399,024 votes, nearly twice as many as George had garnered solo in the 1962 primary. She not only trounced Flowers (who got 142,665 votes), but also shellacked such Democratic stalwarts as former Congressman Carl Elliott (with 64,262) and two ex-Governors, John Patterson (32,305) and Kissin' Jim Folsom...