Word: jacke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a quick game of catch between pointmen John Cochrane and Jack Hughes, Cochrane shoved the puck down the right board for George Hughes, who fed it into Barney for a stuff shot at the right post...
...DIED. Jack Oakie, 74, wisecracking comedian best known for his parody of Mussolini in Chaplin's The Great Dictator; of complications of an aortic aneurysm; in Los Angeles. Abandoning a Wall Street career, Oakie joined the chorus of George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly in 1922 and, after several years on the vaudeville circuit, went to Hollywood, where his waggish ways and round, jovial face won him more than a hundred supporting roles. Playing a happy-go-lucky buffoon, he worked in such films as Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields, The Affairs of Annabel with Lucille...
...incapacitate the CIA. They fear that Americans are too susceptible to periodic bouts of moral outrage, that they fail to understand their cherished democratic freedoms must be protected from a world that in large part does not cherish them. Appearing on the David Susskind Show in January, Jack Fishman, a British expert on intelligence, said he was "appalled by the way the American public is falling into the trap of slandering and smearing its own security organization. The CIA may have made many mistakes, but that does not mean you should smash your own security in the name of freedom...
Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Julius Boros, Jack Burke Jr., Doug Ford. Their names are engraved on the winners' trophies of nearly 200 major golf tournaments. Together they have won four U.S. Open tournaments, nine P.G.A. Championships, six Masters and two British Open titles. They are enshrined in the Professional Golfers Association's Hall of Fame. Last week they added their names to a list of plaintiffs suing the P.G.A. Tour in state district court in Houston...
...common enemy. For many, the war was good for the soul. In a U.S. economically galvanized by the conflict, it was good for the stomach as well. Unemployment vanished, and the unspent wages of war work compressed like a powerful spring. The economy suddenly began to look like a jack-in-the-box poised for peace. When it came, the future sprang up in vistas of well-lighted suburbs and grinning grillwork...