Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twitchy dance of premarital jitters enlivens the third playlet. Mike (Marvin Lichterman) bursts into the apartment of his fiancee Susan (Mariclare Costello) at 4 a.m. to tell her that the wedding bells are not going to chime. Fluttering around like a chicken with its head cut off, he sputters out a dozen reasons why the match would be catastrophic: like, for instance, her arms are too thin. When his hysteria runs out of steam, Susan blandly and sweetly asks him if he and his father got fitted for their tuxedos today...
...first eight months of 1967. Unemployment shrank to 3½% of the labor force, matching a 15-year low. Adding up the figures, the Commerce Department conceded last week that the gross national product-the total of everything produced in the U.S.-will show "a substantial increase" during the third quarter...
...past two years, Chrysler announced price tags for new models, then scaled them down when the industry pacesetter, General Motors, announced lower price hikes. Both G.M. and Ford are planning to post their own new lists this week, and inflation watchdogs in Washington expect increases of about one-third of Chrysler's. They hope that such competition will force the No. 3 carmaker to fall into line once again. To help matters along, Okun and other top Administration people huddled last week with executives of both General Motors and Ford, including G.M. Chairman James Roche and Henry Ford...
...Nixon-Agnew teams of Fuller & Smith & Ross (annual billings: $60 million) and Feeley & Wheeler ($6,000,000) have been prepping for the G.O.P. campaign since February. Even Third Party Candidate George Wallace has a long leg up. Birmingham's Luckie and Forney, which handled Lurleen Wallace's 1964 statehouse campaign, has worked up two 30-minute TV shows...
...quickly from lead roles on Broadway to Hollywood, where he made 53 films, including Mutiny on the Bounty and Advise and Consent. His personal life was littered with four broken marriages and several fights, one of which-against Bit Actor Tom Neal over the affections of Tone's third wife, Barbara Payton, in 1951 -left him with a battered face that required plastic surgery...