Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Harry Belafonte and Cass Elliott join Tom and Dick in their first show of the new season...
Businessmen ask for his autograph on dollar bills. Hippies string medallions around his neck. Teen-age girls line up to kiss him. After a summer in office, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau is still prodigiously popular among Canadians, who are clearly as delighted as they can be with the new national image that he is shaping...
While chasing a grizzly bear one day in 1847, Explorer-Surveyor William Bell Elliott blundered into a canyon that looked to him like "the gates of Hell." Huge, spiraling columns of steam hissed out of the ground; the earth trembled beneath his feet. "The Geysers," as he named the hill-rimmed valley 85 miles north of San Francisco, is as awesome as ever. But its frightening bursts of steam are now being harnessed. The canyon is the site of the first commercial geothermal-power plant in the U.S., and the installation has paid off so handsomely in eight years...
...literature of the put-on so prevalent as in the area of grey humor, the pale imitation of black humor. Kookiness serves for characterization, and unrelated zany episodes for story. The Do-Gooders exemplifies this genre, along with A Bad Man by Stanley Elkin and A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker. Manhattan-born Alfred Gross man, 41, who has written three other novels in the same vein, has been praised for his facility with a special, caviar kind of black humor that only the hip can hope to fully understand. Actually, The Do-Gooders is a variation of Terry Southern...
...Elliott was captain of the chess team and a classics major, not the average pastimes of most Federal prison inmates. But, according to the Resistance, Camp Allenwood is the "best" the Federal Government has got to offer, and the judge pointed out at his sentencing that he could be paroled after one year...