Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fred Muggs, where are you? TV Host Mike Douglas, in Planet of the Apes makeup, strode onstage last week at Philadelphia's KYW-TV studios to tape his daily talk show. His first guest was Trainer Bill Hampton with Marvin the Magnificent, a 100-lb. chimp. To the delight of the audience, Marvin recognized a pal right away. He stroked Mike's unusually pale paw consideringly, then sat back on his haunches and let out a few friendly howls. "The volume could have parted your hair," said Mike later. When Douglas mimicked...
Epstein raised some vexed questions, but reduced the answers to stereotypes. He cast "the media" as a monolith instead of the collection of diverse organizations and individuals that is American journalism. In hanging the civil rights movement's troubles on sensation-seeking press coverage, he ignored a host of political, social and economic factors. The piece was a paradigm of the opinionated mush that [More] attacks when it appears elsewhere. To cap the inconsistency, the same issue of [More] carried a full-page Mobil ad of the kind that Epstein deplored...
...after a coup in Lisbon paved the way for the end of the 500-year-old empire. Despite the jubilation in the steamy African capital of Bissau and the ending of the 13-year war in the African territory that had claimed thousands of lives, a host of problems remained for Portugal...
...Reflecting an American tennis resurgence, Forest Hills has not had so many strong U.S. contenders in years. Wimbledon Champion Jimmy Connors is seeded No. 1, with Stan Smith ranked third, Arthur Ashe seventh and Marty Riessen eleventh. Behind them is a host of hungry players on the threshold of winning their first big tournament: Dick Stockton, Roscoe Tanner, Sandy Mayer and Brian Gottfried...
Although the spiral bacteria, or spirochetes, that cause syphilis were identified in 1905 and have been stained and photographed thousands of times since, they have defied all the efforts of microbiologists to grow them in the test tube. Man is the only natural host of the microbes, called Treponema pallidum, but some animals, notably rabbits and monkeys, can be infected with them. Why then have they proved so resistant to cultivation in glassware...