Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MISS AMERICA PAGEANT (NBC, 10 p.m.-midnight). Telecast live from Atlantic City...
MODEL OF THE YEAR PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The girls are certainly pretty, but it's what's on their backs that counts, as 14 top U.S. designers show the new fall resort, city and formal fashions. Joan Fontaine and Jack Linkletter are the hosts...
Hayes, a soft-spoken North Carolinian who started his career as an assistant editor for Pageant magazine, remained. He rose to managing editor in 1962, editor in 1963. He pacified the staff, tackled a perennial dull-cover problem by persuading Gingrich to try out George Lois, one of the adman inventors of the Volkswagen campaign. Lois, in real life a partner in the advertising firm of Papert, Koenig, Lois, Inc., gives away the $600 he gets for each cover to a Greek charity. Hayes also put across the idea that the magazine's editors should think up the table...
...just another Iron Curtain version of the old love story of man and factory, uniting to turn out ingots, pencils and marzipan. Diapolyecran is a 32-ft. by 20-ft. mosaic composed of 112 huge cubes, each equipped with its own interior slide projector. Wittily presenting a pageant of primitive mammals, insects and Neanderthalers, it moves on to show modern man dwarfed by the machines he has produced. Appropriately, every movement of Diapolyecran has been programmed by computer...
...whites and Negroes in the Deep South; they staged combative strikes in eastern mills and among the farm hands of the Midwest. They were theatrical by nature. To dramatize the issues in the 1913 general strike in Paterson, N.J., they took over Madison Square Garden for a Paterson Pageant. Massed choirs sang a funeral march as red carnations were piled on the caskets of slain strikers...