Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to be getting more playful all the time; indoor games are booming. During the past 15 years, annual retail sales at the leading U.S. game manufacturer, Parker Brothers, Inc., increased about five times-$5,000,000 to $25 million-and the total number of games sold yearly has jumped from 3,000,000 to more than 10 million...
...lynched in Decatur, Miss., supposedly for insulting a white woman. Two Negroes who registered to vote, the Rev. George W. Lee of Belxoni, Miss., and Lamar Smith of Brookhaven, Miss., were shot to death in 1955. Emmett Till was killed that same year. During the spring of 1959, Mack Parker was dragged from his call in Poplarville and murdered. Not a single man has been brought to trial for any of these crimes...
...lukewarm about Staubach (TIME cover, Oct. 18). "He's a scrambler, a rollout quarterback," said one. "He doesn't play the pro game." But 1,738 yds. and 15 TDs later, Roger is the No. 1 choice of 17 out of 22 pro teams. Says Coach Buddy Parker of the Pittsburgh Steelers: "For his position, the best college player I've ever seen." The "book" on Roger: "Very accurate, shifty, strong, great peripheral vision, unmatched at hitting secondary receivers. A perfect pro quarterback." There is one catch: Staubach may never play pro ball. He has another year...
...imbecile!" he snorts. "You're a jelly belly!" she screeches. "And what's more I want you to know I'm a senior in high school!" Jackie sighs deeply: "And what did you learn in school today, my dear?" Tuesday replies proudly: "Donna Mae Parker's gonna have a baby...
...salesmen entertain grandly offer luxurious junkets to the U.S., bombard defense officials and parliamentarians with facts and figures to show that their products are indisputably the best. Lockheed likes to operate through people who have an "in." In Britain it hired Prince Philip's longtime buddy Michael Parker. In Bonn, its chief lobbyist is former U.S. Army Major General Richard Steinbach, who until June 1962 was chief of the U.S. military advisory group in Germany...