Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeking his seventh Senate term, Old Frontiersman Carl Hayden, 85, lay ill with a virus infection in Bethesda Naval Hospital. Back home, followers of Republican Evan Mecham, a Phoenix auto dealer, spread rumors that Hayden had suffered a stroke, that he was dying after a heart attack, that doctors at the hospital had been warned under threat of court-martial not to release news of his death until after Election Day. To convince voters that he was still alive and kicking, Hayden called a press conference-only his fourth in 50 years of public life-three days before election. Arizona...
...Ill lay: Robert Montgomery, 58, actor and television producer, and Brigadier General David Sarnoff, 71, RCA board chairman, both in good condition after being parted from their gall bladders in separate Manhattan hospitals...
When Baggs took over as editor in 1957, the News was a rusty link in the six-paper chain founded by James M. Cox, onetime Ohio Governor and 1920 Democratic candidate for President. Compared to the powerful Herald, the News looked-and was-mortally ill. To save it, Publisher James M. Cox Jr., son of the chain's founder, reached deep into the paper's ranks, came up with exactly the right...
...With typical enterprise, one shopping-center theater has encouraged car-borne family attendance by installing a 40-seat, glass-enclosed "cry room" for mothers with fractious children. And as a daytime lure, the $1,000,000 Golf Mill Theater in Niles. Ill., invites housewives to bring their dirty laundry to the movies with them and drop it off at the box office. The wash is whisked to a nearby automatic laundry, and when the women leave the theater, their clean clothes are waiting for them, dry and neatly packaged. In fact, the shopping-center theater has revived the old habit...
...PORTABLE PIANO. An electronic portable piano built into a case about the size of a two-suiter has been put on the market by the Wurlitzer Co., De Kalb, Ill. Like the Micro-TV, it operates on house current or a battery pack. With a 64-note keyboard, the all-transistor piano can be played via built-in loudspeaker or earphones (for silent practicing), has controls to vary the tone from Hawaiian guitar to vibraphone to glockenspiel. With case, bench, battery pack and earphones, approximate price...