Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Personal Pronoun. "The most important one piece of equipment the aspiring clergyman will acquire," says Smith, "is a wife. She must not be beautiful, stylish or sexy. The best approach to the problem of clerical mate selection is to imagine that you are planning to employ an assistant pastor...
Something to Do. Goldwater's acceptance of Bliss did not come easily. Less than a week before, in his Washington apartment, Barry had listened in angry disbelief as two of his most loyal supporters, Running Mate William Miller and Nebraska's National Committeeman Donald Ross, along with Ray Bliss himself, patiently explained that Burch was not worth fighting for. Miller declared that a thin, five-vote majority was the very best Burch could hope for in the 132-member National Committee. Later Miller spent another two hours urging Barry to accept Bliss. At last Barry agreed...
...went the pilots in their parachutes. While the remaining U.S. jets held Communist ground troops at bay with strafing runs, U.S. helicopters fluttered in from nearby bases, picked up Captain Albert C. Vollmer, 32, of Denton, Kans. His downed flight mate, Captain Charles L. Ferguson, 35, of Clovis, N. Mex., hid all night in the jungle before his rescue next...
...mismatches two pairs of lovers: an arm-twisting loan shark (Steve Roland) with a taffy-sweet Ferris-wheel operator (Karen Morrow), and a glib but honest-hearted Coney barker (Richard Kiley) with a roundheeled golddigger (Luba Lisa). In Act II, Hackett second-guesses Sam; the baddies and the goodies mate...
...Peter Wood has the Kon Tiki touch: he sets the play adrift for the night and apparently prays that it will reach its destination. As The Caretaker showed, Alan Bates is fearfully good at transmitting menace, but as a charmer his signals are garbled. As Bates's second mate-to-be, Joanna Pettet is an indelibly enticing ingenue, but speech is her impediment. She says all the words correctly, but her avidly sincere delivery turns comic gold into lead. Poor Richard is not rich enough to afford a cast and director who do more to put the play under...