Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Andy Devine, 71, gargle-voiced actor who played the hero's pudgy sidekick in scores of western films, turned to TV in the 1950s with Wild Bill Hickok and Andy's Gang; of leukemia; in Orange, Calif...
...Fall, and redemption by the likes of Haldeman, Colson, Dean, Magruder and, eventually Nixon. So Tony Hiss '63 does us all a service with his bittersweet offering Laughing Last, a readable and engaging biography (if it can be classified as such) of his father, Alger Hiss. While the Nixon gang and assorted witnesses and prosecutors continue to churn out bestsellers, this slim volume may be lost in the flood tide of confessions, which is a shame, because Hiss brings a great deal of honest emotion and reflection to his subject, a claim his competitors hardly can make...
...your yearning for the good old anxieties of yesteryear-that is, the late '50s and early '60s-is simply uncontrollable, you could do worse than spend a couple of hours with Twilight's Last Gleaming. In it, a gang of desperate men seize a SAC missile silo in the Far West and threaten to unleash its contents on Russian targets, thus precipitating World War III, unless the President of the U.S. accedes to their demands...
...what now, gang? Another "fine effort" tonight against Princeton? A string of moral victories to finish out the season in superficial fashion? Freshman star Joe Beaulieu says "We'll be much stronger up front next season." Hopefully, the new blood will bring new pride and a limousine ride out of the summer camp league...
...CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL last week approved research within the city limits into the phenomenon of "recombinant DNA," according to strict guidelines imposed by both Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci's "citizen's gang of 400," and the National Institutes of Health. This was a good thing, I figured, but I didn't realize just how good it was until I telephoned my friend Whacker up at North Central State. Whacker, you see, claims to have been doing this kind of research for years, "in a little p-3 facility I built in my spare time out in my garage using plans...