Word: riverboat
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...words of a onetime buddy, "needs obeisance the way a diabetic needs insulin," Hugh Downs may not be able to go on serving the master indefinitely. But new horizons are beckoning. This week, turning to acting, Hugh Downs is in Hollywood taping an episode in NBC's Riverboat series. Title of the show: The Night of the Faceless...
...Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia one day last week, the great crimson gates of the jail swung open, and out straggled the strangest parade the city (pop. 220,000) had ever seen. There were cowboys and clowns, Indians and Davy Crocketts and riverboat dandies. Finally, from across the guards' sports field came Father Christmas himself, riding on a farm cart in the hot afternoon sun. As he stepped down from his cart to hand out the presents, screaming children grabbed his arms, hugged his legs, reached for his beard. "Man," said Father Christmas, "this is tougher than breaking rocks...
...this process of self-enrichment, compounded of many handshakes and conversations, will come Rockefeller's shrewd assessment of his chances, according to his close friends. Like a riverboat gambler, willing to risk all if the odds are right but unwilling to plunge recklessly, in the months ahead Rocky will weigh the evidence, not merely of the polls, but of the state of the nation and the world, all of which bear so critically on the fortunes of Vice President Nixon. Said he last week...
...season, announced NBC, would be brightened by "Total Television." Unable to devise a slogan so thumping, the other networks simply agreed that they too would try to make their entertainment total-whatever that meant. One result: a clutch of new "Action-Adventure" series, from a 19th century riverboat to 21st century rocket ships...
...stooped and paunchy but still very recognizable figure, the man with the white goatee and the riverboat gambler's eyes stepped onto the speaker's platform at Moscow's Central Committee meeting. Ex-Premier Nikolai Bulganin, still a Central Committee member though banished to the chairmanship of an obscure regional economic council in the north Caucasus, spoke his cringing words on the fourth day of debate...