Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been said that when an ace muckraking reporter finally reaches paradise, he is greeted by the patron saint of ultimate rewards, who leads him to a chamber containing a typewriter and the files of the FBI, the records of the Internal Revenue Service, and the dossiers of all security-clearance investigations. The saint hands the newshawk the keys to the files and says...
...more than five years, Aubrey ruled with a high hand and a low common denominator of programming (The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction) that for most of that time won CBS leadership in the ratings. After hours, Aubrey said of himself: "I don't pretend to be any saint. If anyone wants to indict me for liking pretty girls, I guess I'm guilty." Partly because of his after-hours tastes, Aubrey was ousted from CBS in 1965. He moved to Los Angeles and set up a small film-production company...
...acerbic portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Nonetheless, the author marshals her evidence generously enough to allow for differing interpretations and briskly clears away the "cobwebs of fantasy" that have attached themselves to Mary's character over the centuries. Her Mary emerges neither as a Jezebel nor as a saint, but as a high-spirited woman who was brave, rather romantic, and not very bright...
THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Out at her beach house, a free soul (Elizabeth Taylor) enchants a minister headmaster (Richard Burton), and causes his wife (Eva Marie Saint) a lot of grief in The Sandpiper...
...free city of Loches. As a result of Versailles banquets, Louis XIV's stomach was found at his death to be twice normal size. The French Foreign Ministry spends $4,000,000 annually in secret funds, allegedly on payoffs. President Georges Pompidou pays rent on his He Saint-Louis apartment to the Rothschilds, who bought it for him when he lacked the cash. Sometimes a colorful morsel proves slippery-those famous chestnuts that, according to the author, canopy Cours Mirabeau in Aixen-Provence are plane trees...