Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When most Americans cast eyes on their first paycheck of the new year, shudders flashed down their backbones straight to their wallets. To help offset higher benefits and the new medicare program, the social security withholding nick in take-home pay went up from 3.625% to 4.2% on Jan. 1. As a result, a man earning $100 a week saw his paycheck shrink 58?. The $10,000-a-year man's first weekly take-home was down...
...actors. "My Christmas productions, Don Juan in Texas and Across the River and Into the Jungle, had everything in them, even huge barroom brawls. We threw them together in two days, but the audiences loved them anyway. Everyone was always drunk." One of his other plays, The Questioning of Nick, about a high school basketball player accused of throwing a game, was later put on television...
...illustrating distinctly off-color lines with distinctly off-color gestures. Carnovsky himself is perfect as the self-centered, conniving Volpone. He accomplishes the transition from the half-dead malingerer to his avaricious, lecherous self skillfully--and riotously. As one of the minor characters (a captain in the Venetian police) Nick Smith steals a scene with his impersonation of a Brooklyn cop. One shortcoming does stand out amidst the otherwise excellent caricatures: occasionally the young soldier Leone understates the egocentric bravado which should undercut any respect we might have for his heroism...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Kirk Douglas again, this time with Nick Adams in The Hook, about a North Korean pilot imprisoned aboard an American freighter...
...CORNERBACKS: Nick Rassas, 21, Notre Dame, 6 ft., 185 lbs., and Ben Hawkins, 21, Arizona State, 6 ft. 1 in., 176 lbs. Playing strictly on defense, Rassas was Notre Dame's top ground gainer-running back six interceptions for 197 yds., returning 19 punts for 435 yds. A two-way player who averaged 50 min. of action per game, Hawkins runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.7 sec. Naturally, that impresses the pros. So does his "ability to improvise when standard defensive patterns fail...