Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even a shipment of California smog had arrived on the prevailing westerlies, and Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin, 66, might have been tempted to think that Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, 57, was a welsher. Hadn't McKeldin bet Yorty a barrel of Chesapeake oysters against some comparably juicy California product that the Orioles would beat the Dodgers in the Series? And hadn't the Birds walloped the Bums in four straight? Well, yes, squirmed Yorty, but he hadn't really accepted the wager: "Under local law I could not bet." Nonetheless, Yorty informed reporters, "I am sending...
...Sam Robinson has only started one game at halfback, but he has tremendous speed. His Southern flavor adds a certain spirit to the team...
...play in food prices. California's Governor Pat Brown last week promised to help the F.T.C. by sending along a new state wide study that, he says, indicates that the gimmicks cost shoppers "at least a week's groceries a year." New York City Commissioner of Markets Sam uel Kearing Jr. called for an end to stamps altogether; this, he claimed, would reduce grocery bills by 2% to 4% . Esther Petersen, President John son's special assistant for consumer affairs and a voluble champion of the recent grocery-store boycotts, seemed to be leading the anti-stamp...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (ABC, 7:30-10 p.m.). The first ABC movie special, The Bridge on the River Kwai, unhorsed Bonanza in the Nielsen race, and now the network is gunning for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with Sam Goldwyn's 1952 story of the fairy-tale-teller, starring Danny Kaye, Farley Granger and Jeanmaire...
...Sam J. Ervin Jr. of North Carolina, the widespread use of such tests to probe federal job applicants is reminiscent of witchcraft: "Does the flesh of the applicant burn when a hot iron is applied to it? Heaven help us if we are reduced to alchemy as a technique of screening applicants for highly sensitive positions in the federal bureaucracy...