Word: newman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bribe?" He asked Actress Sally Kellerman, who is 5 ft. 10½ in., how tall her husband is, and she placed her hand on her forehead, saying, "He comes about up to here." Cavett: "How often?" Cavett's summary of the Laotian invasion, during a discussion with TV Newsman Edwin Newman: "We're not widening the war, we're merely narrowing Asia." Then there are times when Cavett is just plain flummoxed. Not long ago, Guest Rock Hudson walked onstage, confessed amiably that he was a boring conversationalist and then proceeded to prove it. At one point, Cavett desperately started...
...three years studded with visits to Japan, the U.S., Britain and elsewhere. Court set in motion a series of enormous deals that have already resulted in the investment of more than $1 billion in the Pilbara. The $336 million Mount Newman Mining Co. (30% of which is owned by American Metal Climax) is systematically leveling Mount Whaleback, an immense lode that rises 750 ft., stretches three miles and is said to be rich in ore for at least 1,000 ft. below the earth's surface. In the next 15 years, it will deliver 300 million tons of iron...
Typical of the Pilbara's new mining towns is Mount Newman at the foot of Mount Whaleback. Its 2,700 people represent no fewer than 43 nationalities, including one Icelander. Every dwelling is air conditioned, since the temperature runs over 100° F. for two solid months during the summer, and the amenities also include three swimming pools, four tennis courts and a golf course with gravel fairways and sandy greens. The miners are well paid, but the labor turnover nonetheless is 100% a year. The reasons are not hard to find; most ironworkers are after a quick stake...
...counter the tyranny of diplomaism, colleges and universities could do even more to refine their own goals and purposes. One of the most cogent proposals for an academic rethinking of the relationship between school and work was recently made by a task force on higher education headed by Frank Newman, Stanford's associate director of university relations. Among other things, it recommended that women should be able to take career courses first, so that they can work at least part time during their child-rearing years and return later for their liberal arts studies. All students in fact ought...
...crime, if not the scene. Acting under an assumed mane, the red-wigged Matthau is a Narcissus whose self-love is contagious. But Muriel is immune until Jesse discovers the secret: big names. Dropping them like rose petals, he strews the path to the bedroom...Frank Sinatra...Paul Newman...Troy Donahue...Lee Marvin...