Word: horatios
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...State Fair last week was a good-looking, dark-haired young man with a manner both aggressive and modest, and a personality to delight any political barker. He seemed to have everything-a fine TV manner, an attractive family, a good war record, deep sincerity and religious faith, a Horatio Alger-like career, which had led him into notable accomplishments on two major campaign issues: corruption and Communism. He was Richard Milhous (pronounced mill house) Nixon, Republican nominee for Vice President...
...Horatio Hornblower (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). A new series, starring Michael Redgrave, based on C. S. Forester's hero...
...General Horatio Gates, meanwhile, took over the American command and was joined by General Benedict Arnold and large reinforcements. Burgoyne crossed the Hudson and met the Americans in an inconclusive battle at Freeman's Farm. On Oct. 7, the British attacked again. The Americans, led by Arnold, broke the enemy line and drove them back to Saratoga (now Schuylerville). Surrounded and running out of supplies, Burgoyne surrendered on Oct. 17, to end the gravest threat the Americans had yet faced, and pave the way for France's decision to come to the colonies...
...cramped wardroom of Admiral Horatio Nelson's 187-year-old flagship Victory last week, a court martial sat in judgment on another British naval hero whose duty was dogged by domestic complications. Lieut. Commander Alastair Campbell Gillespie Mars, 37, had neither the rank nor the romantic inclinations of his great predecessor, but during World War II he was one of Britain's ace submarine commanders. His part in sinking some 30,000 tons of Axis shipping earned him both the D.S.O. and the D.S.C...
...Horatio Hornblower (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Michael Redgrave in a new series...