Word: faired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...track down cases and contacts, Dr. Fiumara's investigators pose as social workers, saleswomen, poll takers or long-lost relatives. They arrange interviews in law offices, public libraries, department stores and cocktail lounges. "VD certainly shows no class prejudice," says one nurse-detective. "I go to a fair share of houses with maids and chauffeurs. Parents in the upper and middle classes get hysterical when I tell them that one of them, or their child, has been named as a contact. And there's a double standard: fathers get apoplectic if they hear that a daughter...
...songs and techniques were as much copied from early listening to radio and records as they were derived from the folk around his Deep Gap, N.C., birthplace. He got his first instrument at the age of eleven, a fret-less banjo made for him by his father, a "pretty fair country picker." By 17, he had begun serious listening to such country-music greats as Guitarist Merle Travis, and had duplicated Travis' individualistic finger-picking style, in which the forefinger touches the strings directly and plucks out the tune while the thumb plunks out a moving bass. Country music...
...Sabrina Fair) and Herb Gardner (A Thousand Clowns). Krasna's Blue Hour is a Manhattan love fable. Taylor's Avanti details a triangle between an Englishwoman, an American man and the Italian bureaucracy...
...hauled Chicago's Wilson & Co. into the fold. Early this month, Ling announced a plan to take over Greatamerica Corp., the Dallas-based bank, insurance and airline (Braniff) combine controlled by his longtime ally, Troy Post. If Ling could take Allis-Chalmers in hand L-T-V bid fair to quickly become a $3 billion company...
Ringo Cycle. Leone called the flick A Fistful of Dollars. Basketfuls of denaro would have been more like it. The film outgrossed Mary Poppins and My Fair Lady in Italy, will net an estimated $10 million on its $250,000 investment in worldwide distribution. The success raised Actor Eastwood's fees; he got $15,000 for Fistful, now commands $500,000 a picture. It also encouraged Leone. Pouring on the tomato sauce, he followed last year with A Few Dollars More, which has become the second biggest money maker in Italian film history (No. 1: Dino De Laurentiis...