Word: peacocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vivid day last week, the NBC peacock was the cynosure of every eye-fluttering peahen from the Bronx Botanical Gardens to Los Angeles' Griffith Park. On show after show, NBC's symbol of color television appeared, while announcers crowed about the network's Color Day, every show a bottled rainbow. For once the soap operas were literally purple, and even Huntley and Brinkley gave hues of the news...
...National Park Service; William Y. Elliott as Director of the Tennessee Valley Authority; John Yovicsin as Coach of the White House Touch Football Team; and John Kenneth Galbraith as Ambassador to the Revolutionary Government of Ethiopia.... Pusey says that he is "pleased as punch and proud as a peacock," and makes plans to attend the inauguration.... Frank Sinatra's "Inaugural Gala" features the Harvard Band and Glee Club, and makes so much money that even Foster Furcolo's debt from his primary campaign for Senator are paid...
...long as the Shah hangs onto his throne, the boy will not escape the trappings of royalty. Some time within a year or so, when the Shah celebrates his own much delayed coronation, young Prince Reza Cyrus will be perched atop his father's knee on the Peacock Throne...
Loewe thinks of music in terms of color, once turned out compositions that reflected what he saw on an artist's canvases. For visitors he will still improvise "colors" on the piano, turning out a peacock- blue sonata or red march from three notes offered him at random. Without lapsing into triteness or parody, he has an extraordinary ability to suggest geographical locale, whether it is Scotland, Spain, or the American West, which has never been more eloquently described in melody than in I Talk to the Trees from Paint Your Wagon. He is sometimes accused of being derivative...
...Navy when a federal grand jury indicted him for smuggling. The charge: Erdmann, when relieved as Commander of Naval Forces in the Marianas, had packed home 100 gallons of tax-free liquor aboard the carrier Bon Homme Richard, listing the bottled goods as a bundle of tables, carvings, peacock chairs and fishnet floats. Said the admiral manfully: "The main point is I did it. I was caught, and I regret it very much...