Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles, a Civil Defense warning that retail stores would be closed for five days in the event of war or a national emergency sent housewives stampeding into the supermarkets. In one, hand-to-hand combat broke out over the last can of pork and beans. Said North Hollywood Grocer Sam Goldstad: "They're nuts. One lady's working four shopping carts at once. Another lady bought twelve packages of detergents. What's she going to do, wash up after the bomb?" Yet for all such transient evidences of panic, the U.S. was solidly behind Kennedy...
...Pollster Sam Lubell took a quick reading immediately after President Kennedy's television speech on Cuba last week, concluded that the crisis atmosphere might help the Democrats in this year's elections -but not very much. Chief impact, said Lubell, would be on congressional contests, which are more closely tied to voter feeling about national issues than the races for Governor...
...built Andover. The pious John Adams (a relative of both Presidents) forbade dancing as well as Shakespeare, and regularly climbed a ladder to wind the clock in Bulfinch Hall, discoursing on its motto, "Youth is the seedtime of life," as the boys vainly awaited his fall. The zealous "Uncle Sam" Taylor (1837-71) was a total believer in "total depravity." "Robinson," he warned one 14-year-old, "you're on the direct road to hell. You're reading too many novels." Still, Taylor's boys, partly inspired by Faculty Wife Harriet Beecher (Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...sliding shoulder straps. Manhattan's Seventh Avenue has been pilfered, as it is a couple of times a season, for a spotty cloak-and-suit comedy called Seidman and Son that is full of decent sentiments and indecent sentimentality. A play it isn't, but thanks to Sam Levene, that endearingly amusing one-man encyclopedia of Jewish gesticulation, box office...
...Crimson oked out a 2-1 victory in last year's clash, with Center Chris Ohirl accounting for one goal and Sam Rodd the other...