Word: pat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tournament of Noses. The President-elect became an impassioned, if studiedly neutral fan inside Pasadena's huge stadium, despite the fact that Pat Nixon is a graduate of the Pacific Eight champion, Southern Cal. He leaped to his feet when Heisman Trophy Winner O. J. Simpson took off on his 80-yard touchdown run and summoned with rapid gestures his own version of instant replay for the benefit of former Oklahoma Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who sat on Nixon's right. A reporter inquired if Nixon was attending his first Rose Bowl game...
Desire to Compete.The finale in California was a "Welcome Home, Pat and Dick" party in half a dozen towns in the area where Nixon grew up. It was staged-inevitably-as a "This Is Your Life" show. The 9,000 rooters who packed Anaheim's convention center were treated to recollections of Nixon's youth by everyone from Speech Teacher H. Lynn Sheller, who told of the future President's "tremendous desire to succeed and to compete," to 92-year-old Ella Furnas, who was introduced as the first person to hold Nixon when he was born...
...blowing kisses to scores of worshipful fans while a 55-piece band blasted out greetings. Ginger was en route to London for a year's run in Mame. When someone mentioned her $600,000 contract to play Auntie, she sounded as if she already had the part down pat. "My attitude is somewhat callous to the sound of large amounts...
...tour with the Nixon campaign in September produced a totally negative picture of the candidate ("When Nixon is alone in a room, is anyone there?"), but her interview with Pat Nixon provided a striking glimpse into Mrs. Nixon's personality. Made uncomfortable by Gloria's questioning about "what she identified with, other than daughters and husband," Mrs. Nixon finally spoke, "low-voiced and resentful; like a long accusation, the words flowed out. 'I never had time to think about things like that - who I wanted to be, or who I admired, or to have ideas. I never...
...comics. What's It All About, World?, starring Dean Jones and produced by Saul Ilson and Ernest Chambers, originators of The Smothers Brothers, will also go on ABC. CBS will pick up another corporate effort by Smo-Bros Productions, The Glenn Campbell Goodtime Hour, featuring frequent visitations by Pat Paulsen. Among the other midyear substitutes following older formulas: an NBC mystery comedy, My Friend Tony, by Producer Sheldon Leonard (I Spy), and an ABC game show, Generation Gap, put together by David Susskind's Talent Associates...