Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) takes out after a murderer with a preference for photographic models in World Premiere: Dragnet...
John Paton Davies Jr. was born in China, the son of U.S. missionary parents. He joined the Foreign Service in 1931, served largely in the Orient and advised General Joseph ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell in Chungking during World War II. There, he criticized Chiang Kai-shek for battling Mao Tse-tung's Communists more ardently than their common enemy, the invading Japanese armies. That stand cost Davies his job. In 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy named him as part of a group that "did so much toward delivering our Chinese friends into Communist hands...
...Ewbank sounded presumptuous, Jet Quarterback Joe Namath was downright cocky. Whatever slim hopes the Jets had of winning centered on Namath's arm - and the only thing he seemed to be exercising was his mouth. The Colts, he said, were not only beatable, but their quarterback, Earl Morrall, the N.F.L.'s most valuable player, would have a tough time making the Jets' third string. Holding court at poolside or swirling a double Scotch-on-the-rocks at a pregame banquet, Broadway Joe's message was always the same: "We're going to win. I guarantee...
...turned out for the Jets, the role of the underdog has its psycho logical advantages. Besides, Namath's confidence was catching. By the time the Jets took the field they had more going for them than Joe's wide-open passing attack. Safetyman Jim Hudson wore his lucky red silk shorts. Fullback Matt Snell, a Methodist, wore a silver mezuzah sent to him by a Jewish friend...
...that we should exaggerate the chances of vigorous rock and roll being submerged under the pseudo-heavy "sound" music of the more pretentious West Coast groups -- the Miami Pop Festival had enough talent on display to keep one's fears tiny. Country Joe and the Fish, say, who came on unprepossessing but grow in stature as they assert their calm and confident rapport with the audience all building up to that staggering moment when they launch into "Fixing to Die"--in such a way does rock and roll gell musical and spiritual elements to produce instants of screaming intensity...