Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Courier (circulation: 20,000 a week) was the brainchild of two rights-minded veterans of a summer in Mississippi. The two, former CRIMSON editors Ellen Lake '66 and Peter Cummings '66, envisioned a network of five state-wide weekly newspapers in five Deep South states. But that would have taken $75,000 to get going, and months of letter-writing, phone calls, and collections around Harvard produced only $35,000. They picked Alabama, where civil rights groups were planning massive voter registration campaigns to unseat Gov. George Wallace...
...Great Britain continues to ignore us," said President Peter Adams, "we will seek alliances with other nations in the hemisphere." This troubled warning came last week from the leader of Anguilla, a 35-sq.-mi. West Indies isle, which is having some trouble making a suitable political connection. Anguilla has other difficulties: it attracts no tourists, has no natural resources or industry, lacks water and supports its population chiefly from fishing, smuggling and money sent home by Anguillans working elsewhere...
...Daily News has begun hiring consultants, such as James Dunn, a former circulation staffer on the World Journal Tribune, and Peter Palazzo, who redesigned the Sunday Herald Tribune before it folded. Palazzo worked on an afternoon format for the News for weeks. "My work is classified," says Palazzo. "At this delicate stage I shouldn't say any more...
...Unknown Soldier and His Wife. The only evil of war left unmentioned in Peter Ustinov's three-hour verbal artillery barrage at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater is the antiwar play. Despite a sprinkling of quips, Ustinov lays down a lethal set of pacifist platitudes that ultimately calls for an intellectual gas mask...
Gunn. In his day (1958-61), he was so cool that frost used to form on his dialogue. His wardrobe was so kempt that he had creases in his sweaters. Anyone who hired Private Eye Peter Gunn knew he was getting the real TV goods: come-what-mayhem, brisk backchat, and a solid Henry Mancini score between the commercials...