Word: mchale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offices of the Detroit News. At the building, only police were present to hear Sheila Ann Murphy, the 21 -year-old leader of the marchers, read a statement accusing the News of becoming "a diabolical menace because of its racially inflammatory editorials, features and distorted reportings." The Rev. Joseph McHale, a Catholic priest, ignited a trash can full of copies of the newspaper. He called the act a "symbol of purification" and urged a public boycott of the News...
Other casualties include the last of the doctors, Kildare and Casey; both The Addams Family and its imitator, The Munsters; and three combat comedies, Mr. Roberts, McHale's Navy and The Wackiest Ship in the Army. Four westerns are going thataway: Branded, Shenandoah, The Legend of Jesse James and The Loner. Peyton Place will run two installments a week instead of three, and its Southern version, Long Hot Summer, will be cut off altogether...
Forecasting is an art that still has few textbooks. Its basic tool is extrapolation from yesterday and today. As John McHale, executive director of World Resources Inventory, puts it: "The future of the future is in the present." Some other methods seem fairly arcane. Defense Expert Herman Kahn, for instance, uses "scenario writing," in which various alternative future situations are dramatized. Some forecasters use computers to produce a symbolic "model" of particular social or economic structures-including whole industries or nations-and then simulate the interaction of variables. Rand uses the "Delphi" method, in which a wide range of experts...
...William C. Bartholomay, John J. McHale, Thomas A. Reynolds Jr., John J. Louis Jr., Delbert W. Coleman, James B. McCahey Jr., Daniel C. Searle and Louis R. Perini...
...will on Jan. 30 add another MCA show called Big Three Golf, a weekly continuing match between Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player. MCA also presents Jack Benny, Alfred Hitchcock, Wagon Train, The Kraft Suspense Theater, Broadside, 90 Bristol Court and McHale's Navy. At least 22 TV programs are now being shot on the Universal lot. Nor has all this activity crowded out the company's commitments to theatrical motion pictures. On the contrary, TV takes care of the overhead and expands the budgetary possibilities for big films. In its short existence as a major producer...