Word: poston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political rather than a military move, and one that will have little immediate effect on either them or the war. "This business is meant to pacify the folks at home," commented a military policeman in Saigon. "We're going to stay here for a long time." Pfc. Jimmy Poston, born in Guam, a 20-year-old draftee who serves as an assistant gunner in a mortar platoon, is also unfazed. "All the political speeches and stuff don't mean anything when you're over here," he says. "Boy, you know they were talking about Viet Nam when...
...along, Nixon was looking for a Negro of stature and ability. Three are known to have rejected his offers: Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Ersa Poston, president of the New York Civil Service Commission. Now the Nix on scouts are hunting for black officials at the sub-Cabinet level...
...Jeopardy or You Don't Say! sits red-and green-eyed as other women-coifed and dressed in their finest at midday-win money and refrigerators and play charades ("lie, czar, rust . . . Lazarus!") with real, live, ever-popular, never-to-be-forgotten celebrities such as Alan King, Tom Poston, Morey Amsterdam, and what's-his-name...
Like a Bride's Trousseau. Most of these baroque horrors are gradually being dropped from congregational repertories and eased out of new hymnals. In England, Teacher David Holbrook and Composer Elizabeth Poston are preparing a new hymnal for use in schools (every British school starts the day with a hymn), and so far have found only 100 usable songs from the 10,000 or so contained in seven standard English hymnals. Two years ago, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church brought out a new hymnal that left out such traditional numbers as The Old Rugged Cross and Nearer...
...snatching away Mantle's milk money, the FTC took a line that could put a painful crimp in the $500 million-a-year business of testimonial advertising. Does Arthur Godfrey really use Sucaryl? Does Comedian Tom Poston actually sip Heublein martinis? Is it a fact that New York Giants' Quarterback Charley Conerly deodorizes himself with Trig? If the FTC vigorously enforces its policy, an eager world may yet learn the answers to all these questions and more...