Word: roster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Ralph Bellamy, Jane Wyatt, Inga Swenson and Gene Hackman people Robert Crean's drama My Father and My Mother, third original TV play on this season's Playhouse roster...
...network of slave profiteers began with black African wheeler-dealers whose names read like a roster of fly-by-night used-car salesmen-Grand Trading Man Ben Johnson, Willy Honesty, Yellow Will. But before long, European heads of state were getting their share of the action by way of taxes, if not by direct participation. When Queen Elizabeth heard about the first African voyage of John Hawkins, she called it "detestable" and prophesied that it "would call down vengeance from Heaven upon the undertakers." When she learned how handsomely the shareholders made out, she invested in the second expedition herself...
Tangled Midwest. To be sure, the merger trend among U.S. railroads is nothing new (see map). But the plans for the Penn Central were the most am bitious yet. As Saunders promoted them, his tireless determination seemed to promise eventual success. Inevitably, it gave new impetus to a growing roster of other corporate unions: ¶ In the East, the coal-rich Norfolk & Western and the Chesapeake & Ohio-Baltimore & Ohio are moving toward a merger that will probably be consummated some time in 1970. The C. & O. took effective control of the B. & O. five years ago in a move that...
...number of alumni in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region who have little opportunity to expend their school spirit. Alumni operations, for instance the annual state smoker, have been planned this year around the Crimson's appearance. The presence of goalie Bill Diercks and forward Chip Otness on the Harvard roster is another card: they both hail from Edina, a Twin Cities suburb, B.C. has always boasted a squad of Boston products until this year, when their big star is sophomore Tim Sheehy, not uncoincidentally from Minnesota...
...wasteland in 1842, when the city's Philharmonic Society gave its first public concert on Dec. 7. A large middle-class German population had brought cultivated tastes from abroad; the concert rooms and theaters were filled with touring opera companies on long visits, and there was an impressive roster of homegrown organizations. Indeed, two other Philharmonic societies had already come and gone. The first, founded in 1799, took part in George Washington's memorial services; it lasted until 1816; the second, put together in 1824, succumbed three years later, largely because a craze for masquerade balls had tied...