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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committed himself to The Bob Newhart Show (NBC), which requires as much new material each week as he used to develop in months. Last week's premiére showed the strain, starting with a superb phone monologue and autobiographical sketch ("people thought I was taller than I am, but this is about as big as an accountant will get") and sliding slowly downhill thereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...World War II G.I. averaged 1½ in. taller and 15 lbs. heavier than the World War I doughboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: In the Front Seat | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...girl personally. At 20, Toni Avril Gardiner is modestly pretty, modestly sized (4 in. shorter than Hussein's 5 ft. 6 in.), modestly educated (like Hussein, she never went to college)-in many ways a better match than Hussein's first wife, Queen Dina, who was taller, seven years older, and holder of an M.A. from Cambridge. Hussein got to know Toni at go-cart races in Amman, and both are fond of fast cars, planes and dancing. "Toni," said a friend, "is not very anything. She's a simple, gay girl who will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jordan: King Takes a Wife | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

...riders on the New Frontier, none sits taller in the saddle, spurs his job harder or shoots from the hip quicker than Arizona's Stewart Udall, 41, the athletic Secretary of the Interior. In his office by around 7:30 each morning, Udall puts in a twelve-hour day, manages to ruffle a good many feelings throughout Washington in the process. Less than a month after taking office, Udall frankly stated that he would play politics "to the hilt." He annoyed Capitol Hill by stating publicly that he had twisted congressional arms to help President Kennedy's showdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: You Learn As You Go | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...after two games in which he led the scoring even though he didn't start, rauss was in the line-up for good. Consistently facing opponents three to five ches taller, he still managed to score close to 20 points a game and grab a large are of the rebounds. The big question is whether he will be able to perform such ats against experienced varsity competition...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/13/1961 | See Source »

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