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Last week NBC-having been pleased by a trial show broadcast last autumn-began a new weekly series of That Was the Week That Was in the U.S., produced by Leland Hayward and written by Robert Emmett and Gerald Gardner. It promised a lot: a live program full of uninhibited topical satire, laced with guts and gaiety and the spirit of no tomorrow. But this side of Menninger's, no one could have dreamed that such a promise would be delivered. The actual result was bland and unfunny, full of toothpicks masquerading as rapiers...
There is something about the name Emmett Augustus Carlisle III that conjures up visions of double-breasted blazers and yachting caps, and maybe a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. But this Emmett Augustus Carlisle III, 21, is a broad-shouldered blond from Athens, Tex., who is more comfortable in hip pads than flannels. Around the University of Texas campus, folks are so proud of him that they sometimes call the seniors "Carlisle's Crowd," and anybody who breathes "Duke" Carlisle's given names is alookin' for trouble, pardner. If Duke can't handle...
...instance, may establish the president's presence in one city at a time when Justice Department antitrust lawyers accuse him of being someplace else in a price-fixing conspiracy. Leahy's teams shy from letting corporate committees decide what should be thrown out. "In committee," says Founder Emmett Leahy, 53, "a company can always come up with reasons why useless papers should be retained...
...himself, at the age of fourteen, saw a friend of his father's lynched in Decatur, Miss., supposedly for insulting a white woman. Two Negroes who registered to vote, the Rev. George W. Lee of Belxoni, Miss., and Lamar Smith of Brookhaven, Miss., were shot to death in 1955. Emmett Till was killed that same year. During the spring of 1959, Mack Parker was dragged from his call in Poplarville and murdered. Not a single man has been brought to trial for any of these crimes...
...speak on behalf of all of us in the United States in expressing our pleasure in meeting you and our pleasure in the honor you have done our country." Kennedy also presided over the Rose Garden presentation of a Distinguished Service Medal to recently retired Air Force General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., who led the first B-29 bomber raid on Tokyo during World War II. Just before the affair began, Kennedy spotted a clutch of U.S. Senators in the crowd. He introduced a couple of Democrats by their last names, suddenly saw Republican Barry Goldwater and yelled...