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...revue. "We plan to kick the door wide open," the producers promised. TherE they closed it by hiring as host Disney Star Dean Jones (That Darn Cat), and by laying on a premiere as topical as Early Berle, as substantial as tapioca. They struck body blows at Shirley Tern ple movies and George M. Cohan musicals. A chorus boy wore a huge papier-mache Richard Nixon head. Mid-finale, Jones apologized "if we've offended anybody," and the cast broke into This Land Is My Land. The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (CBS) is a revival of the summer-substitute...
...most rely on outside consultants. In recent years, anthropometry has enabled manufacturers to develop movie cameras compact enough to fit snugly in one hand, more fully rounded typewriter keys that are kinder to secretaries' fingernails and elevator buttons that are within the reach of tall and short peo- ple alike...
...conference was the latest exam ple of a cascading cry within academe that big universities have lost their critical function, become captives of Government, business and military research. The dissidents are especially concerned that values inherent in the humanities are not being applied to real-life problems. A university, argues University of Chicago Sociologist Richard Flacks, one of the conference organizers, must not be "just a service station for the establishment, but a place where people can work for the dispossessed, the poor, and those out of power...
...frills included home health services, dental care, eyeglasses, drugs, physiotherapy, private-duty nursing, podiatry, hearing aids, chiropractic and even the services of naturopaths. When a plan was finally approved, the federal handout was scaled to the state's income level: 50% for New York and California for exam ple, 65% for Utah. (It would be 83% for Mississippi, if that recalcitrant state were to participate...
...demise came in 1925, when the New York Life Insurance Co. decided to build a skyscraper on the site. As the last boxing event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...