Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, a 1968 morning show, was canceled after ten money-losing months. The second, at midevening, lasted four months. Then, last December, Cavett was given one last shot-in late-night competition with NBC's Johnny Carson and CBS's Merv Griffin. That seemed like a more logical hour for Cavett's sophisticated approach, but many of ABC's affiliated stations undermined the network on the assumption that more advertising dollars were to be had by running old movies. Some 30 outlets declined to carry the Cavett show at all; many stations that did (including those...
...history of environmental politics. Sponsored by Maine's Edmund S. Muskie, the National Air Quality Standards Act of 1970 swept through the Senate without a single nay vote. The key target was automotive exhaust, the nation's chief air pollutant. But even Michigan's Robert Griffin, a staunch supporter of the auto industry, voiced only nominal protest and then voted for the bill. "Congratulations," said one Senator. "You've just gotten motherhood through...
...Thomas J. McIntyre reported a telephone con- versation with a "highly placed source in Vienna [who] made it very clear to me that the success of the SALT negotiations rests almost exclusively on our not remaining static in our ABM pos ture." Just before the vote, Republican Whip Robert Griffin bore down hard er on the issue: "If this amendment should carry and if the SALT talks should thereafter collapse, I would not want to be in the position of those who will vote today against the President...
...Republican leadership fell in line behind the President; Hugh Scott voted for the bill, as did his potential challengers for the post of minority leader, Robert Griffin and Howard Baker. The Administration kept up the pressure: Justice Department official Donald Santarelli was a constant visitor to the Hill; Attorney General John Mitchell appeared early in the week to sanitize the language of the debate, changing "No-Knock" to the presumably less odious "Quick Entry...
...owns a chain of "My Place" hair-styling salons for men. After a half-season of feuding with the Houston Astros' management, Mod Joe abruptly quit and came home to New York. His long, carefully shaped locks, embellished by a partial hairpiece, showed to advantage on the Merv Griffin Show, and Joe made his singing debut with a creditably crooned version of Around the World. But he admitted that his heart is still in the dugout. "I love playing in the Astrodome," said Pepitone. "It's the biggest hair dryer I've ever been under...