Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battered 1968-69 season limps toward summer reruns and oblivion, two of the liveliest shows left on the air are the network newsmagazines. Since they compete head to head, the problem is figuring out a way to watch them both. One solution is to watch First Tuesday the first Tuesday of the month and 60 Minutes the third, when its rival does not appear. However they're watched, the shows prove that network news, thinly sliced, can be as entertaining-and sometimes as superficial-as most variety shows...
...brothers' by then successful nightclub act. He was also Tommy's roommate; the two of them used to write down ideas and gags, songs or shows and store them in a stationery box. Williams also began to record random thoughts in 500-page accounting ledgers left over from his pre-actuary days. He has filled up nine so far. Many of the jottings went into seven books he printed for friends at his own expense and into his new Doubleday collection. For example, "There are no empty Tabasco Sauce bottles." Or: "I think it would have been nice...
Presidential Prank. Williams wears a beard, buffalo-skin trousers, patched epauletted shirt, leather jacket and a neckerchief. But there is a lot of the actuary left in the man. He always carries a briefcase, and his workroom wall is covered with precise flow charts that plot work in progress. There are 23 projects pending. Right now, only one of them involves television. "TV," he says, "is not a medium anyone will let you work in creatively any more. People in the networks are afraid of original ideas." He does not disdain TV, however, to plug his book...
...numbers tell much about the life and times of Chaim Serna, 43, a power-company foreman in Jerusalem. One of them, 108342, is tattooed on his left forearm, a souvenir of Auschwitz. The other is 612214 on the license of his blue Volkswagen. "If trading with Germany is good for Israel, and I think it is, then I am for it," he says. His countrymen, despite considerable resentment stemming from Nazi days, seem to agree. Trade between Germany and the new state of Israel is booming...
...confections, in fact, should ideally double as weapons. Sugar Daddy lollipops, made of viscid caramel, will last through any double feature, and their remains can always be left on the seat, where they are guaranteed to adhere tenaciously to the victim's bottom...