Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schools opened this fall, Democratic Governor Julian Carroll, 44, seemed a clear favorite to be returned to the statehouse. A down-home lawyer from West Paducah, the silver-haired Carroll is a tireless campaigner and an evangelistic orator who sounds, in the words of one state politician, "like Gomer Pyle at the Second Coming." Then, under federal court order, the yellow school buses began to integrate schools in Louisville and the rest of Jefferson County, and suddenly Carroll was sharply challenged by Republican Robert E. Gable, 41, a coal and lumber millionaire...
Reaction from Princeton students and faculty to the project has been slight. "There hasn't been any," said Thomas Pyle, chairman of Princeton's undergraduate assembly. Some student pressure last spring led the university to make a commitment for low-cost housing in the project, an editor of the Daily Princetonian reported...
Moreover, the smooth Fleet Street professional is not without his own inadequacies. His preferences are understandable. The flamboyant correspondents make livelier copy than Knightley's accounts of Edward R. Murrow, A.J. Liebling, Alan Moorehead and Ernie Pyle-men who muffled the "boom-boom" in favor of the human voice. But as every journalist learns, readability has its casualties...
After a decade of solely religious programming, in 1971 Robertson also began running secular children's shows and reruns of wholesome sitcoms (Leave It to Beaver, Corner Pyle) that lured a larger audience to stay tuned for the religious shows. Listeners are extremely loyal: most of the network's income -$10.7 million this year-consists of their small contributions. The remainder comes from commercials that are screened for good taste and reliability...
Fullerion won the 100 breaststroke and Brumwell placed second to Princeton's amazing Curtis Hayden in the 400 IM. Duncan Pyle and Wolfe finished fourth and fifth respectively in the 100 backstroke to pick up more points as the Crimson scored more than 100 points on Friday to jump to third place overall...