Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watching, the town of Beverly Hills, Calif, (pop. 33,500), is the capital of the world. "We're all voyeurs here," says Screenwriter Peter Stone, who just escalated a notch toward celebrityhood himself by winning an Oscar for the year's best script, Father Goose. "When we pull up to a red light we all look over at the next car to see who's in it." In this high-proof concentration of fame and beauty, the highest-proof spot between the hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. is something called the Daisy...
Brown, at two last year, swamped Steele in straight sets despite an injured shoulder. Steele may pull through this time, but Harvard cannot count on his match. Harvard must not depend on a win from Benjamin, either. His recent back injury, coupled with his baseline game, makes him a definite underdog...
...stagehand told Bob Hope he had a minute and a half before it all started. "Thank you," replied Hope calmly. "Shall I pull my pants up or just go on?" A minute and a half later, pants pulled up, the comedian-master of ceremonies walked onto the stage at Santa Monica's Civic Auditorium and, for the eleventh time in 13 years, did his valiant, 21-hour best to pull up that most intractable of TV shows, the annual "Oscar" awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
...transport that Textron bought in 1956. Before Textron finally scuttled her, she lost $6,000,000 cruising to Hawaii. Sailor Thompson and Textron President G. William Miller, 40, both keep a model of the Leilani in their desks. Whenever any Textron executive suggests acquisitions that sound farfetched, they quickly pull it out to silence...
...shortly after being discharged from the Army Air Corps in 1943, he signed up in Hans Hoffmann's painting classes. Rivers proved a hip but argumentative pupil. The canvas rectangle was then viewed as a neutral battleground whose every square inch must show the vital push and pull of his artistic struggle. How was it, Rivers wanted to know, that the greats of the past were good even in fragments...