Word: gallon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ives as he looks deep into the drawing-room eyes of the new arrival, "they've sent me a totok" which is Dutch slang for greenhorn. Straightaway, Ives saves scene after scene of the picture by stealing it. Guzzling what he calls P.G. (pure gin) from a half-gallon tin, charging and trumpeting like a white war elephant in a Panama suit, Ives produces his gutsiest acting triumph since Big Daddy...
...parade led to the Sam Houston Coliseum for a neighborly cookout at which 1,500 chickens, 2,000 Ibs. of spareribs, 3,000 lbs. of beef were served up to 6,000 Space Center workers and their families. As the astronauts were given the traditional Texas totems-a ten-gallon sombrero and a gold reserve sheriff's badge-Ohio-born John Glenn got into the spirit of things by greeting people, "Howdy, podnuh...
Died. Rex Bell (real name: George Beldam), 58, Nevada's ten-gallon lieutenant governor and the Republican nominee in this year's gubernatorial race, who in 1931, as a six-gun star of the silent screen, eloped with Clara (the "It Girl") Bow, once owned a 600,000-acre ranch, which he sold in 1953 when he won office; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...
...like weather satellites and full-size space-capsule mock-up (complete with a silver-suited astronaut); the Mexican Pavilion with walls of lava cubes and a startling, exquisitely crafted assemblage by Manuel Felguerez; a fashion pavilion where haughty Vogue models perch on concrete lily pads in a 5,000-gallon perfumed pool. But those who take even samplings at the fair's food spots will probably be too stuffed to get to most of the exhibits...
...pick up extra jingle writing jingles (TIME, April 21, 1961) he is, by his own description, "the top man in the field." His monumental arias of trade include You'll Feel Better About Smoking with the Taste of Kent, Kent with the Micronite Filter; the rousing Big Gallon song, the Cities Service Suite; Newport Filter Cigarettes, Newport Filter Cigarettes; the Bon Ami Jet Spray Sonata; and the battle hymn of York Imperial-size Cigarettes. Soon radio and TV audiences will be hearing his latest creation-the new national anthem of the American Gas Association-several thousand times a week...