Word: guests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minute program this year will bring in $10.5 million in sponsors' fees. While many TV shows have to round up studio audiences off the streets, the Mike Douglas Show claims a 14-month waiting list for tickets, and performers are standing in line to do a guest shot...
...School officials do not expect that all of the invited guest will attend. If they did, the result would be somewhat catastrophic, since the conference has facilities for only 1200 participants...
...Gambit. The secrecy and lack of pomp at the ceremony gave rise to the inevitable rumors that the Rusks were trying to downplay the marriage. It was held in California because a Washington wedding would have increased the political ramifications and made it more difficult to keep the guest list unofficial. Moreover, a Washington bash would certainly have increased pressures on the young couple. Jack Foisie, a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and brother of Mrs. Rusk, explained to the press that the families wanted "to give the kids a break on the takeoff, because they're going...
...University wanted a headliner for its liberal arts program, and it picked a winner. For a $30,000 salary, plus $70,000 for research assistants, the adventurous Roman Catholic university got Canada's self-styled Mind-Massager Marshall McLuhan, 56, to come down for a year's guest professorship. In his very first lecture, McLuhan told his 178 students that the Viet Nam war is "an all-outeducational effort" and that TV is "an Xray machine." The one student who tried to take notes dissolved in utter confusion. But the rest were turned on-to say nothing...
...million people will persist in remembering him as the Mingo who threw the Johnny Carson Tonight show into an uproar in 1965. Ames, a deadeye natural athlete who can hit a bull's-eye from 20 paces with a bowie knife, went on the Carson program as a guest. According to the script, he was to fling a tomahawk at an eight-foot-high cardboard cutout of a cowboy; during rehearsal, he hit the target in the heart 19 times straight. On the air, old Mingo took aim, let fly and ripped the cutout right in the crotch. Carson...