Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Security Blanket. On Tonight, McMahon is the perfect aide-de-camp. Like Carson, he keeps his chatter on the light side. It's a basketball game of sorts, the way Ed sees it: "I help him get the ball down the court, and he sinks the basket." Sliding farther and farther down the couch as the guests pile up, Ed can still be heard roaring delightedly at all Carson's jokes, even the frequent gibes at Ed's supposed alcoholic prowess. Last week, giving blood on camera to help dramatize a nationwide shortage, Carson lifted his head...
...York was shut down for two days by President Joseph P. McMurray "to avoid possible violence." Black and Puerto Rican students demanded the right to control the appointment of the director of the SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) program that was set up in 1966 to help minority students...
...Japan-with a revivalist fervor that suggests an Oriental version of Moral Re-Armament. Its Youth Division has a flashy fife-and-drum corps replete with majorettes. Its thrice-weekly newspaper, the World Tribune, is filled with ardent testimonials of what conversion has meant. Every member is expected to help expand the rolls by the practice of shakubuku*-proselytizing -wherever he goes. Those who can afford it are urged to make one of the chartered-jet pilgrimages to the head temple of Taisekiji in Japan, which more than 10,000 members visit daily...
...tattled that Danny was never around to consult. Danny claimed that Georgie demanded to be named general manager and was guilty of such naughty behavior as sending an assistant to spy on another team. Georgie said that he "never asked for anything for myself, only for things that would help the players and give the fans a winning team." Danny said that Georgie encouraged the players to ask for more and more money and that he was turning them against the management. Georgie's wife said that her husband's only intent was treating the players...
...cost of borrowing from U.S. banks last week climbed to a historic high. For the third time in six weeks, major banks raised their prime rate, the interest that they charge their best corporate customers for loans. The latest increase, from 6¾% to 7%, is in tended to help curb the nation's overexuberant economy by making credit so costly that businessmen will borrow and spend less. Because they operate in directly, such restraints at best take effect only after a time lag of weeks or months. The immediate impact fell on the securities markets, forcing bond yields...