Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the average salary for a TV news director was only $18,200. Such disparities offend those who believe salaries should more closely reflect journalistic experience. "Are anchors worth these astronomical amounts?" asks Chicago Sun-Times TV Critic Frank Swertlow. "Of course not. As journalists they can't hack it. These are made-for-television journalists...
...most impressive, however, is John Guerrasio as Timmy, the boy who comes home from the wars. Guerassio brings an energetic, pleasing style and a hoarse tenor voice to the part, which seems to have been written for him. He is at his best imitating a vaudeville hack or meandering through a wicked drunk as the family collapses around him. His timing and movement are impeccable; more will certainly be heard from this...
Still, one has to admire his chutzpah. He has hired pretty Shelley Hack (the Charlie girl of the perfume ads) and then hidden her fine face behind a huge pair of glasses. He has added Writers Jimmy Breslin and George Plimpton to the cast for curiosity value. He has even had the nerve to stage his big reconciliation scene on Christmas morning, heaping sentiment on sentiment. It may work...
...attained the North Pole in 1909. Like Peary, Uemura had set off from Ellesmere Island, now part of Canada's Northwest Territories. Early in the trip, 30-ft.-high formations of compressed ice known as pressure ridges blocked his route across the frozen Arctic Ocean obliging him to hack passageways through the ice to make way for his 882-lb. sledge. Temperatures dropping to as low as -68° F., gale-force winds and a blizzard also slowed down Uemura Though he wore modern thermal underwear, most of his clothing was Eskimo gear; bearskin trousers, sealskin mittens...
...soldiers used to climb for hours in the hot sun to reach the marijuana and opium poppies hidden in the Mexican Sierra Madre. Then they had to hack up the crop with machetes and burn it. Starting in 1975, the U.S. made their work easier by providing blue and white helicopters (Bell 212s and 206s), purchased at a cost of about $21 million; some of the helicopters were used to spray herbicides from a few feet above the ground. Others served as gun ships, hovering above to shoot it out with the peasants who took up arms to defend their...