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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...league expanded to nine teams-adding a franchise in Miami-and now there is talk of a tenth tearn in Chicago. How much Foss had to do with all this is a moot question. Very little, said his enemies among the owners-and last week they forced him to quit with a year still to go on his 50,000-a-year contract. As Foss's sucessor they chose Oakland Raiders Coach Al Davis. Foss's good advice to Davis: "Wear a thick skin and a soft mile, and carry a sense of humor...
Sadler grew up in "maybe 25 towns" in the West. His father, an itinerant plumber, died when Barry was seven; his mother was a barmaid. Young Barry quit school at 15, "bummed around for three years" before joining the Air Force. When he got out in 1962, a buddy taught him drums and guitar, and they formed a combo. But they couldn't hack it playing honky-tonks, so Sadler tried the Army. Then came eleven rigorous months of Special Forces training that qualified him for his green beret as a combat medic. Along the way, at Fort...
Thus last week Bundy announced that Fred W. Friendly, 51, who quit his job as CBS News president in February,* would become an "adviser on television" for the Ford Foundation. At the same time, Friendly will become Edward R. Murrow professor of TV journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism. The new assignments will pay Friendly about half his old $75,000 CBS salary, but they "will give me a chance," he believes, "to do more for broadcasting than I could do on the inside." A worthy, or as Harvard guys...
...Exile? Their demands may well be met. For the moment, however, Suharto's associates were more concerned with finding means to ease Sukarno from the scene, perhaps even into exile. Already the new government is looking for a quiet way to re-enter the United Nations, which Sukarno quit in 1965, and is sounding out other countries on the possibility of aid to strengthen Indonesia's economy. The hope is eventually to slide the island republic from its leftist posture into a genuinely non-aligned position...
...persisted for 13 years. Perry Mason will sign off after nine years, Donna Reed after eight, and Hazel and The Flintstones after six. The top-rated Dick Van Dyke Show is the only one retiring-after five years-of its own volition. Explains Van Dyke: "We wanted to quit while we were still proud of the show...