Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retailers have been eying Kong's potential with .prehensile enthusiasm. It will soon be possible to drink King Kong cocktails made from grenadine, orange juice-and bourbon-from an ape-shaped Jim Beam bottle. For kids there will be stuffed monkeys in three sizes, board games, knee socks, T shirts, lunch boxes, chewing gum and a King Kong candy bar. Though most of this stuff will go on sale too late for Christmas, shopkeepers seem to be taking the news philosophically. After all, with Producer Dino de Laurentiis already at work on King Kong, Part II, the monkey business...
...Jim Wright, as he prefers to call himself even on official congressional stationery, will be 54 next week. Elected to the state legislature at the unripe age of 24, he was considered outrageously liberal on some civil rights issues. He retained that label in the first few years after he reached Congress in 1954. But while he continues to be rated as liberal on economic issues, on others he has become conservative...
...kids are mad at the world," says Senior Class President Jim Kleker, whose family decided to move to Wyoming. "We're getting screwed and there's nothing we can do about it. Sometimes it makes you feel a little crazy." Adds Senior Candy Baldridge: "We just wonder why the people of this community made us sit home and rot. I feel like I've been gypped...
Goosey Prospect. Even now, nobody can predict that the budget will pass. Says High School Principal Jim Sutherland: "I'm goosey about January 11. Some school supporters who are upset by the new cuts are going to vote no, while a lot of the original no-voters are so no that they wouldn't vote yes for anything. They say it's the taxes, but I don't buy that. They want control over the schools, over what's taught, who's hired or fired. Some parents seem threatened by their kids getting...
...doubtful that the networks would adopt the one real innovation in television news, a half-hour each night confined to exploring one timely topic. This is the special achievement of public television's weeknightly MacNeil-Lehrer Report, now seen in some 200 cities. Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer are good questioners and have shown a flair for quickly rounding up two or three people qualified to speak on a subject in the headlines. Often their guests do not have big names or even prepossessing camera personalities-they are the kind of people you find on panels at seminars...