Word: greys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think there is a single sacred cow you haven't kicked," said Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas to Harvard Professor Sumner H. Slichter last week. Belligerent, grey-haired Economist Slichter's cow-kicking had thoroughly be-dazed Douglas' Joint Congressional Economic Committee at the start of its large-scale inquiry into how to achieve economic growth without inflation...
...after four years, there he was: an aging (60) little (5 ft. 3 in) grey-mustached man, gaunt, hollow-cheeked and weary, but very much alive. Last week, pardoned as part of the Cyprus peace settlement, George Grivas arrived home in Athens and was feted like a hero out of Homer. At the airport Grivas strode briskly down the gangway from the Greek Air Force Dakota that had been dispatched to Cyprus to fetch him, and he pushed first to the arms of his wife. He was dressed as he had lived for four hunted years, in brown sweater, brown...
Rojas did not laugh. Stooped and grey at 59, he bitterly turned the knife on old colleagues. "If there is honesty," he declared, "you must bring here without exception all those persons who collaborated with my government." Such a roster, as everyone knew, would include several Senators, and the five members of an army junta that replaced Rojas and now live in honored retirement. His wealth? Ah, said Rojas, there were a few "presents," received in the spirit given, "whether it was a herd of cows from ranchers of the Ilanos, or a little duck from an unhappy old woman...
...Latest Nielsen ratings: Gunsmoke (40.1), Wagon Train (38.3), Have Gun, Will Travel (35.7), The Rifleman (34.0), Maverick (32.9), Wyatt Earp (31.8), Zane Grey Theater (31.1), Wanted, Dead or Alive (30.6). Only nonwesterns in the top ten: Lucy-Desi (34.9), Danny Thomas...
...amnesic prospectors. Then there was the Civil Rights Western, and all the persecuted Piutes, molested Mexicans, downtrodden Jewish drummers and tormented Chinese laundrymen had their day. Scriptwriters are now riding farther from the train, rustling plots (from De Maupassant, Stevenson, even Aristophanes), introducing foreigners (an Italian tailor on Zane Grey Theater, a samurai on Wagon Train) and dabbling in rape, incest, miscegenation, cannibalism...