Word: shillelaghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Michael Shea as Huck Finn, Kevin Schultz as Tom Sawyer and Lu Ann Haslam as Becky Thatcher find themselves in a forest inhabited by leprechauns in "The Magic Shillelagh." Premiere...
Last weekend, for example, 65 members of Washington, D.C.'s 1,700-member Emerald Shillelagh Chowder & Marching Society flew to Stowe, Vt, for skiing; round-trip in the club's DC-7B cost $37 apiece, compared with a minimum of $80 for the same flight on a commercial airline. Over the same weekend and at similar savings, Denver's Ports of Call ferried 68 members to Nassau; Cincinnati's Travel A-Go-Go and Manhattan's Society of Sky Roamers delivered 90 members each to Miami for the Super Bowl; World Samplers of Dallas lifted...
Died. Michael Joseph Quill, 60, the Irishman who laid his shillelagh across New York City's transit system last month; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan (see THE NATION...
...Ahearne in the role of Edward Quinn dominates the acting in Hogan's Goat. With a face like a gnarled but still serviceable shillelagh, he manipulates, insinuates, coaxes and bullies the other characters. Yet his confession at the play's end, his whining claim of "being nothing, nobody" is still effective. In one speech his cockiness and his cynicism fall away, and leave a naked, ashamed...
...SHILLELAGH is a stubby little (about 50 Ibs.; 43 in.) missile launched from an armored vehicle-usually a tank. Its microbeam-guidance system is so accurate that Shillelagh can destroy a tank, pillbox or troop concentration several miles away. Giving Shillelagh an added knockdown punch is its launching platform, the new General Sheridan tanklike armored vehicle. This is a speedy battlefield bantamweight (it weighs only 16 tons, compared with 50 tons for most U.S. tanks) that scoots along at 39 m.p.h. on the ground; when necessary it can dive into water and "swim" at 4 m.p.h. More important: the Sheridan...