Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author of the first volume, Merton J. Peck, now professor of economics at Yale University, felt that it had "some impact, but how great an impact I couldn't say" on the changes made by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in the awarding of defense contracts. "It didn't outsell Earle Stanley Gardner in the Pentagon bookstore, but it sold well for its type of book," Peck commented...
...symbolic confrontation" with the Pentagon to any outright lawbreaking. As a result, an entire issue of the Mob's newspaper, the Mobilizer News, was rewritten and a tub-thumping editorial replaced by a quieter explanation of the march's purpose, written by Co-Chairman Sidney M. Peck, a Cleveland sociologist. Dellinger reversed his ground and urged avoidance of blatant lawbreaking, but at the same time was careful to disown in advance any responsibility for the more vigorous forms of protest. Thus a befuzzed line was drawn between "dissent" and "resistance" in the complex vocabulary of the American peace...
Mysterious Sea Breeze. Pending that decision, Romney leaped at an opportunity to peck at Lyndon Johnson about Viet Nam. Ironically, the chance came via Reagan, into whose hands a friendly but mysterious sea breeze wafted a radiogram from White House Aide Marvin Watson to Price Daniel, L.B.J.'s liaison man on board. Watson was advising Daniel on tactics for getting the Republican Governors to approve a pro-Administration resolution on Viet Nam. The advice was routine enough: remind the Republicans, especially Rockefeller and Ohio's James Rhodes, of their support at previous Governors' meetings. Reagan showed...
AFRICA (ABC, 7-11 p.m.). A four-hour special touching all the bases-sights (the Nile, Kilimanjaro, the Sahara, Sphinx, Congo, jungle), wildlife, entertainment, Miriam Makeba, a Kinshasa jazz band, political leaders (including Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta), history, sports, health, education, tribal life, race relations and so on. Gregory Peck is the narrator...
...Director Roger Vadirn, 39, planned it for his movie Barbarella, giant fans would blow 2,000 wrens into a cage occupied by Wife Jane Fonda, 29, exciting them so much that they would peck off her clothes For four days the fans whirred, birds swooped, Jane emoted-but nothing happened. In desperation, Vadim jammed birdseed inside her costume and fired guns in the air, which bothered the birds not at all but drove Jane off to a hospital with a fever and acute nausea. After three days of rest Jane returned to work, finally finished the scene with...