Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marion Ann Borris Javits, 21 years the Senator's junior, was born in a Jewish slum in Detroit, moved to The Bronx after her parents were divorced when she was ten. She graduated from high school with honors in speech, soon afterward decided "to try Hollywood for a minute." The minute lasted for a couple of years, but she never made it as an actress, and at 20 she returned to make the rounds of the New York producers while working at odd jobs "for carfare and stockings." One of the jobs took her to the research department of Jonah...
Reagan, 55, served his audience the Hollywood hors d'oeuvres that they expected. Watching his old movies on the late show, he said, "is like looking at a son you never knew you had." Then he set out to expound his political views. "I've never advocated selling the Post Office or abolishing social security," Reagan declared, adding that "Americans are united in their determination that no area of human need be ignored." However, he reasoned, "the big question is not whether-but how, and at what cost-these problems will be solved. I respectfully suggest...
...trained her well. She told reporters that mother had given her a copy of The Carpetbaggers with the query, "Tell me if that really is the kind of career you want." Raquel said yes, with certain exceptions, of course. "I made up my mind," she told the newsmen, "that Hollywood is not a place filled with sinister characters lurking in half-shadows waiting to seduce virgins . . ." Reporters found this so refreshing that they didn't ask her for any further comments on moviemaking...
...Wheels," scheduled for September airing on CBS. He is a large stockholder in the Riverside, Calif., International Raceway; he is part owner of a 470,000-acre cattle ranch near Yosemite National Park; and his company's real estate division owns more than 250,000 sq. ft. along Hollywood Boulevard...
...anti-gravity device, heads a U.S. space center for NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit is decorated in passionate red, and the whole house is the sort of marshmallow dream that Hollywood merchants manufacture year after year to spoon glamour into the dull, grey life of your average mortgage-holder...