Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Really Big Show...
...Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In gets the majority of its audience from the 12-to-18-year-olds? You have to be kidding. I've just bought 40 of their shows. We started screening them a month ago. Everyone is delighted. Now I've got to tell them they've been watching a teen-age show? I could get fired for this...
This article is especially important to me since I am deaf and miss most of the verbalizations of the show. When my wife, who can hear, explains them to me, they just don't seem funny. Your story effectively delineated that lost spontaneity...
...legendary efficiency of Richard Nixon's campaign organization, reports TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont, would lose them after glimpsing the operation at the Willard. Compared with the one-floor warren that passes for the Democratic National Committee and Hubert Humphrey's campaign headquarters across town, the Nixon show is a lesson in the power and effectiveness of supreme organization...
...operation is a small, windowless office known as "the war room." Its walls are plastered with charts and maps that trace every move by the candidates. One chart focuses on ethnic groups and their numerical strength in 17 pivotal states. One map goes so far as to try to show the location of troubles that have yet to occur. When violence flared briefly at Columbia University last month, Nixon headquarters quickly received intelligence reports that similar disturbances were planned at colleges across the nation. The reports, naturally, went right onto the futures...