Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arthur P. Jacobs is not just any Hollywood producer, either. He is the man who is filming The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting's wry children's classic about the physician who talks to animals, as a $12 million 20th Century-Fox musical extravaganza, starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Tony Newley, and a cast of 1,147 other humans and 1,500 beasts. To play the featured role of Gub-Gub the pig, he will need 40 trained piglets (because they grow out of the part so fast). The fabled two-headed pushmi-pullyu will...
...inhabitants would far rather have Fox stay. Despite the traffic jams and general confusion, the new telly system gives much better reception than the old, a number of rooms have been let to film folk, some of the locals have been hired as extras-and Rex Harrison and Samantha Eggar are due to arrive any day now. Says Mrs. Nan Tresilian, proprietor of an antique shop called the Unicorn Gallery, and a leader in the save-the-village movement: "The people most shocked are the American tourists. They come in here with their hair standing on end, asking...
Harry F. Byrd Sr., the man who built the machine and set it running when he was elected governor in 1926, retired from the Senate last November after running unopposed for reelection in 1964. Seventy-eight years old and stricken with arthritis, he had outgoing governor Albertis S. Harrison appoint "Young Harry," 51, to take his place. Virginia liberals and moderates railed against the "hereditary succession" and prepared to take on Byrd Jr. and Robertson in the state Democratic primary July...
...Sixty-three seemed the year of lost hope for Virginia liberals. Gov. Harrison and Lt. Gov. Godwin had defeated a liberal ticket in 1961. The "Young Turks"--Boothe of Alexandria, Toy Savage of Norfolk and others--who had fought the Byrd Organization's segregation and tight budget policies during the '50s--were beaten and tired and did not run for the state legislature in '63. The conservatives who did run and were elected ignored a state constitutional mandate to reapportion the legislature...
...Operation Coco Beach near Ben Cat-150 when a regimental-size force of Reds charged a 1st Division bivouac in the predawn darkness. The 1st fired back at point-blank range with everything it had, including 105-mm. howitzers. Near Tuy Hoa, the 101st Airborne's Operation Harrison has so far accounted for 189 enemy dead...