Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "so many other interviewers are so busy trying to formulate the next question that you can say, 'I just murdered your sister, and am planning to rape your grandmother,' and they'd say, 'That's great, A1. Now . . . ' Moreover, Johnny does not step in to kill his guests' lines. Says Comic Woody Allen: "He appears to be most pleased when the guest scores. He feels no compulsion to top me." Adds Actor George Segal, another Tonight veteran: "Johnny always makes people look good." Carson describes that talent as "an affinity for editing...
...ripe-and-ready takeover target by announcing plans for an acquisition of its own. Robert E. Brooker, chairman of the Chicago-based retailing and mail-order giant, said Ward would buy Los Angeles' MSL Industries Inc. for some $90 million in securities as a first step toward building "a substantial manufacturing complex." MSL last year rang up $116 million in sales of industrial fasteners, plastics and other products, earned $6.4 million-which is just the sort of tonic Ward can use. Suffering from tight pressure on profit margins, Ward cleared only $16.5 million from its record 1966 sales...
Despite some probable disappoint ments when and if the tariff cuts take effect on the scale indicated by the final bargaining, the free world should move a step closer to economic unity...
...real evidence of quarks is found, says Hasted, "elementary-particle physics will have taken the next great step forward. It's so important to find quarks that it's worth looking anywhere. But we think that it's much easier to look in the lower ionosphere than anywhere else...
...become instant celebrities. Among them is Debbie Watson (TV's Tammy), a Go-Go bird in a gilded cage who busts loose and tries to make her way to the top of the charts. Should she decide that happiness is just a thing called dough? Or should she step down into the role of mousewife to her baritone boy friend (Gil Peterson)? Eventually, as is proper in this kind of Hollywood hokum, she does both. But before the final fadeout she is preached at and screeched at by Roddy McDowall as her manager, Phil Harris as a TV producer...