Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tiger and The Typists. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson are in two clever one-acters; the first concerns two self-appointed nonconformists who eat their i own cliches, the second a pair of drab office workers whose entire lives drain away from...
...hats and cutaways mingled with others in fur-flapped caps and knee-length yakskin boots last week outside the tiny Buddhist chapel in Sikkim's dollhouse Himalayan capital of Gangtok. Wedding parcels from Tiffany's were piled side by side with bundled gifts of rank-smelling tiger and leopard skins. Over 28,146-ft. Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain and Sikkim's "protecting deity," hung a blue haze. It was an "auspicious sign," said Gangtok astrologers, for the wedding of a quiet, blue-eyed New York girl, Hope Cooke, 22, and Gyalsay Rimpoche...
...known to civilized nations as Humorist S. J. Perelman, 59. Having bagged a Broadway comedy hit. The Beauty Part, Perelman was an author in search of "four magazine articles." At the end of his Land-Roving safari through Kenya, he caromed up to London, hoping later to join a tiger shoot in India, then on to Burma and Bangkok to see what the jet-set drifters were doing for laughs...
...yellow and purple robe. The crowd cheered. Then the spot swung around and picked up Clay, dressed all in white-white robe, white trunks, white shoes. The crowd hooted. There was warm applause for the ring introductions-Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano, Barney Ross, Dick Tiger-champions all. Then more boos for Clay. And still more, as he danced and waved and made faces at his tormentors...
Kennedy's press conference statement satisfied hardly anyone. Wrote Shannon the next day: "The presidential press conference, once a tiger burning bright in the forests of the Washington night, has become a toothless old animal." Wrote New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston (who had earlier in the week wryly cited the Peace Corps as the only New Frontier program that has surpassed either promises or expectations) : "As a public relations stance, the President's attitude has its advantages. It gives the impression that somehow today's problems will yield to patience and persistence. But will...