Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vague about how much money he made last year ("Two million? Three million? Four million? I don't know"), but he claims proudly that he sold 2,000,000 albums in 1968. "That's more than Andy Williams, more than Tony Bennett." The set for his television special, he says, "was the biggest single set ever built for TV." As a result of the show, he "had offers from every single network for a series...
...variety of new products, services and jobs is growing up around the thriving catfish industry. Ralston Purina and other manufacturers have developed special catfish foods. Several firms are experimenting with pumps, mechanical feeders and harvesters, and there is a race to develop the best machine to behead, skin and eviscerate catfish. "Chip" Farmer and his neighbors in Dumas, Ark., have opened the nation's first catfish-processing plant, a cooperative that will package 900,000 Ibs. of fish this year. Restaurant chains specializing in farm-grown catfish are opening up in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. In time, the taste...
Peck, all dignity, stalks senselessly through the film like a man in someone else's nightmare. The dreamer is Film Maker Carl Foreman, whose shoddy special effects and flaccid production soon turn Mackennas Gold into solid dross. To fill up the film, he has José Feliciano twanging a narrative ballad and Quincy Jones's thunderously atmospheric music throughout. The result sounds like pebbles clattering down the Grand Canyon...
...Rosa tell it, though, the debunkers have gone too far. A Western buff who lives in England, Rosa has written a well-informed and lively book that tries to make a balanced revaluation of the six-gunslinger in the making of America. Rosa ends by according him a special status, halfway between John Bunyan and outright bum, as a marked-down culture hero who created for his epic era a flawed but salient image of the male...
PRESIDENT PUSEY listened to a couple of sharp lectures from members of Congress last Thursday when he testified before the special House subcommittee of the Committee of Labor and Education. But even the toughest lectures he got were only a small indication of the real mood in the nation's highest legislative body. Congress is angry and it is very likely that some form of what Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) calls "overkill" legislation will pass, at least in the House...