Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although they are both Republicans and more or less liberal, two Rockefeller brothers seemed to be in friendly competition to win the favor of Georgia's Democratic reactionary Governor Lester Maddox. Aware that Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller had delivered a shiny orange bicycle to Maddox after Lester had jokingly complained about his lack of transportation, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller could hardly wait to upstage his brother. How did Maddox like the bike from...
Tricia, who once encouraged Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox to turn his chicken restaurant into a private club to avoid Federal civil rights laws, is reportedly the most conservative member of the Nixon family. Washington columnists say that Cox is politically left of both Tricia and her father. But they add that President Nixon enjoys the "give-and-take" of discussing social issues with...
THEN CAME BRONSON (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). His motorcycle takes Jim Bronson (Michael Parks) across the U.S. His temporary job at a camp for disturbed children is the opening sequence, with Mark Lester, Jack Klugman and Karen Huston. Premiere...
...WILD, RUN FREE. Parents who think that most matinee movies more often seem to be made by children than for them will be pleasantly surprised by this subtle, low-keyed allegory of childhood's end about an autistic English boy (Mark Lester) and an almost magical white colt...
Blue Fire. Other stories examine what might happen when it is man's turn to explore other worlds, possibly to encounter life forms both inferior and superior to his own. One chilling short novel published in 1954, Lester del Rey's For I Am a Jealous People, told of a future in which mankind comes up against an ambitious race of conquerors with whom God has made a new Covenant-against earth men. Ray Bradbury's story of "The Fire Balloons" in The Illustrated Man tells of a gentler encounter, when two Episcopal missionaries on Mars discover...