Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cowboy Cutout. Still, it is likely that at least 10 million people will persist in remembering him as the Mingo who threw the Johnny Carson Tonight show into an uproar in 1965. Ames, a deadeye natural athlete who can hit a bull's-eye from 20 paces with a bowie knife, went on the Carson program as a guest. According to the script, he was to fling a tomahawk at an eight-foot-high cardboard cutout of a cowboy; during rehearsal, he hit the target in the heart 19 times straight. On the air, old Mingo took...
Violence in America's cities, a burning issue in the nation today, seems likely to persist as a major theme through the 1968 presidential elections. With that thought in mind, Lyndon Johnson last week flew to Kansas City, Mo., to present the forgathered police chiefs of 350 U.S. and Canadian cities with his own program and prescriptions for coping with urban anarchy. To judge by the reception accorded him at the 74th annual convention of the International Association of Police Chiefs (see THE LAW), the President and the professionals are on the same wave length...
Other over-interpreters include the listeners who-like literary critics dissecting a sonnet-ferret out indirect references in Beatle lyrics and persist in catching a whiff of drugs in such innocuous songs as Yellow Submarine. And there is still the hardy minority that insists on viewing the Beatles as the great put-on of the century...
...another. They also began to deal more rationally with the West. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya dropped their oil embargo against the U.S. and Britain and reaffirmed their promise to subsidize Egypt and Jordan to the tune of $392 million a year as long as "traces of Israeli aggression" persist. Egypt and Sudan restored landing rights to Britain's BOAC, and Egypt was on the verge of allowing T.W.A. back into Cairo. Even those two archenemies among the Arabs-Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal-were talking to each other. After agreeing...
...twice denied having said any such thing, then added: "If you persist in not believing me, that is your privilege...