Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberals reason that a sizable vote for Tower, 42, the state's first G.O.P. Senator since Reconstruction, would enhance liberal influence in Democratic ranks and ultimately help to open the way for a genuine two-party system in Texas politics. Coolly watching the Democratic fight from the sidelines, Tower says simply that he "welcomes support from wherever it occurs." No easy target, Candidate Carr, 48, piled up more votes (1,900,000) in 1964 than any other office seeker in the state's history. All the same, there are some 30,000 to 40,000 hard-core liberal...
...Treasury Department for months, pleading with them to tap a source of revenue he estimates at $110 million yearly. The stalling, suggested Schmidhauser in a House speech, comes from senior bureaucrats' "unwillingness to step on powerful toes." Republican Glenn Cunningham of Nebraska made it a bipartisan fight. "This is no matter on which reasonable men can differ," said he. "It is now time for action...
...action will appeal to youngsters most of all. The "Carosello of the Roses," for example, is a dazzling sword fight between six horsemen who try to slash short-stemmed roses from each other's helmets. The "Coliseum" num ber is even more savage. It opens with a gladiator whipping a half-clad "Roman slave," winds up with two four-horse chariots racing madly around the ring to see who can get to the victim first. The winner has the honor of tying the slave behind his chariot and dragging him across the arena and through the exit at full...
...Sarnoff's memo had been pigeonholed. Now he dug it out, showed it to Owen Young. Sarnoff's boss was enthusiastic, but the RCA board would agree to put up only $2,000-which Sarnoff spent to transmit a broadcast of the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight championship fight.- Heard by 200,000 wireless enthusiasts, the broadcast caused a sensation, and RCA began developing sets immediately. By 1926, sales had passed $83 million, and Sarnoff was a vice president in charge of its newest venture: the NBC radio network...
...Flynn of the flick is a dashing colonel of les paras (Anthony Quinn) who. is presented as a square-jawed Horatio Algeria. He organizes his regiment to fight a brush-fire war, and with the hesitant assistance of an aide de camp (Alain Delon) who falls in love with a rebel belle (Claudia Cardinale), he conducts a brilliant but brutal campaign in the interior. In the end he wins a general's stars but loses his self-respect...