Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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F.D.R. (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Charlton Heston comes down from the mountain to speak the former President's words in "Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt," a focus on that First Lady's evolution as a world figure...
When the original, 32-page Social Security Act was passed back in 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt figured that the Government would be paying $3.5 billion a year in benefits by 1980. As it turns out, he was slightly off; the new bill, now en route to a Senate-House conference, where most of its provisions are expected to remain intact, will boost the Government's annual social-security payments to $25 billion...
F.D.R. (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Roosevelt's evolution from Hyde Park patroon to internationalist, encompassing his early espousal of dollar diplomacy in Latin America, his Wilson-inspired support of the League of Nations, and his ultimate commitment to the good-neighbor policy...
...Entry. As for the Democrats, they still seemed bent on tearing themselves apart. Last week their big-name hope, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., announced in Washington that he would not enter the New York mayoralty campaign, obviously because he had no desire to face a party primary fight. Of the other Democratic possibilities, none gave any sign of withdrawing. In fact, the race for the Democrats' September primary logged a fifth entry-City Comptroller Abraham Beame, 59. Declared the 5-ft. 2-in. Beame of the 6-ft. 3-in. Lind...
Quickie Stakes. Selznick's passing mood of pessimism was only a momentary fall from the relentless exuberance that made him appear as an outsized (6 ft. 1 in.) Teddy Roosevelt at costume parties, decide at one point to give up sleeping on Monday nights, and put chips on almost every number when playing roulette. "Live expensively!" advised his father, a Russian-born immigrant who became a multimillionaire in silent films. "Throw it around! Give it away! Always remember to live beyond your means. It gives a man confidence...