Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case in point revolves around a four-line footnote. It appeared in a Modern Living story (Jan. 5) about a peripatetic, perfectionist omelet maker named Rudolph Stanish. The footnote described his special omelet pan and gave the name of its distributor, Manhattan's Bridge Co. When we began to get an exceptional number of letters and calls from would-be purchasers of the pan, we checked with the company's owner, Fred Bridge...
...Pennsylvania Military College for 73 years, the school was skidding toward bankruptcy before it opened a coed night division in 1954, accepted full-time nonmilitary students in 1958, finally added an all-civilian branch, called Penn Morton College, in 1966. The trustees fought for two years over what to name the combination, finally agreed on PMC to please those alumni who wanted some suggestion of a military designation. Although cadet applications have been dropping for four years and some 100 beds in cadet dorms are now vacant, total enrollment has climbed...
Purge Scene. What they get for their $40 tuition is eleven 2½-hour seminars, including screenings and analyses of TV pilot films. Dozier also gives the floor to big-name guest lecturers whose castigations and confessions are reminiscent of scenes from Nurnberg or a Moscow purge. Screen Gems' Harry Ackerman, one of TV's hottest hit makers (Dennis the Menace, Bewitched, The Flying Nun), conceded that the only hope for quality programming is a fourth network, run by Washington. Another visiting professor, Lee Rich, TV vice president of the Leo Burnett ad agency, said that there...
Schweitzer's main concern nowadays is to complete the biggest change in the IMF's 24 years: creation of a new international money - paper gold - to take the pressure off dollars, pounds and real gold in bankrolling world trade and investment. It goes by the clumsy name of "Special Drawing Rights," or SDKs for short. Actually, SDKs would have some characteristics of currency and some of credit. They would consist of wholly artificial reserves, carried on the IMF's books as a separate fund and backed by pledges of contributions from IMF members in their own currencies...
Died. Charles Chaplin Jr., 42, eldest son of the comedian; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Bedeviled by his name ("Sometimes I wish I was called James"), Charles Jr, never rose above bit parts in such dreadfuls as High School Confidential and Teacher Was a Sex Pot. His one claim to recognition was a 1960 biography, My Father, Charlie Chaplin, a sometimes fatuous but often illuminating account of life with daddy...