Word: millers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago Bureau Chief Loye Miller had been following the Illinois campaign since the day Charles Percy announced his intention to run. In Boston, Correspondent Dave Greenway, collaborating with Bureau Chief Ruth Mehrtens, topped off the close coverage of the campaign by tucking napkin under chin and sharing Edward Brooke's night-be-fore-election "soul food" dinner of pigs' feet and Moet et Chandon champagne. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, who lives a scant two miles from Ronald Reagan and had followed the candidate's progress for 18 months, did not remember any champagne. "It added...
...addition to the glittering Senate victories of Chuck Percy and Bob Grif fin, the voters re-elected a phalanx of Republican regulars: Iowa's Jack Miller, Kansas' James B. Pearson, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Nebraska's Carl Curtis. Indeed, it was a boomerang attempt by Lyndon Johnson to dislodge Curtis that led to one of six gubernatorial victories in the region...
Vexation with Taxation. In Iowa, where a similar L.B.J. intervention failed to persuade Democratic Governor Harold Hughes to take on G.O.P. Senator Jack Miller, Hughes, an ex-truck driver and reformed alcoholic, easily won re-election over Republican William G. Murray, an Iowa State University economics professor; nonetheless, Hughes-imposed tax increases cut down his margin of victory. The voters' revolt over taxes-cum-inflation was also a major issue in Kansas...
...week) sideman in music, he left Harry James's band in March "to put music back in its perspective, to offer something else than just twang, twang, twang." His new band, he says, has nothing to do with nostalgia. "Who the hell wants to hear the Glenn Miller sound? I dress '67, I drive '67, I think '67, I play '67. There is no such thing as the good old days...
...many of the shows are being dropped, in fact, that Milton Berle, one of the victims, has proposed that all his fellow dumpees sign off together in one single special titled Exit Laughing or the Nielsen Follies. Berle's company includes Tammy Grimes, Jean Arthur, Roger Miller, Shane, Hawk, Twelve O' Clock High, The Hero, The Rounders, Run, Buddy, Run and The Man Who Never Was. All are going off the air, leaving the field to such high-type shows as Gilligan's Island, Green Acres and Peyton Place...