Word: rods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time. As far as the pay-raise issue goes, McNamara was acting in his familiar role of lightning rod for the White House. He was trying to control costs-as do all department heads. Besides the specific effort to hold down the fiscal-1967 budget, the Johnson Administration is committed to keep all wage increases within reasonable bounds...
This time she is married to Rod Taylor, who gamely shoulders the burden of manning a myth. The two have moved to England for business reasons, and Doris quickly establishes herself as an adorable young matron who is crazy about Rod, small animals and bird watchers, but detests those horrid men who hunt foxes. She also drives on the wrong side of the road. She just doesn't seem cut out for England...
Following a misunderstanding about the hours Rod spends with his secretary, Doris flies off to Paris with an antique dealer (Sergio Fantoni). It is only a shopping junket, but Doris gets drunk, gets reckless, finally gets trapped for the night in a tiny shop where the dealer tries to arouse her interest in a highly compromising old bed. Eventually, she recaptures wedded bliss, but not until she lands by mistake in another wrong bed. In fact, she is the incarnation of a loud, bumptious, overdressed lady tourist on the town. Which raises another question: If Doris Day becomes America...
...result was that the Viet Cong had to boost their 10% "rice tax" on farmers to 60% in unprotected areas, with no rise in their popularity rating. More often, the G.I.'s effort is spontaneous. At Phu Bai, marines organized scrubins for the village toddlers. Army Captain Ronald Rod, before he was killed by a Viet Cong sniper in December, collected enough money and supplies to get an orphanage started by writing to a New Orleans newspaper. On his own initiative, Navy Medic "Doc" Lucier, a burly, open-faced Negro from Birmingham, Ala., braves booby-trapped trails to give...
Barlow falls in love with Aimee Thanatogenos (Anjanette Comer), the first lady embalmer of Whispering Glades (and you know what that means). But the trouble is that Aimee is already captivated by Mr. Joyboy (Rod Steiger), who thinks she's the greatest cosmetician he's ever known...