Word: timing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Planting Fish. What could be done to clean up the mess? The mosquito abatement district switched from the persistent DDD to methyl parathion, a chemical that is effective against gnats but that deteriorates and becomes harmless in a short time. At the same time, the district hired a team of scientists from the University of California at Davis to find a way to control the gnats biologically. Led by Entomologist Sherburne F. Cook Jr., the team decided that a small fresh-water smelt, the Mississippi silverside, might find the gnats appetizing. In 1967 they "planted" 3,000 fingerlings...
...About a week ago I asked ABC for a little time off," Joey Bishop wisecracked to his studio audience one night last week, "but this is ridiculous." Joey will get the last 13 months of his contract off, ending a hopeless 2½-year challenge to NBC's Johnny Carson. The coup de gráce was the entry of CBS's Merv Griffin into the late-night competition in August. At last count, Johnny was attracting 33% of the audience to Merv's 18% and Joey...
Joey's permanent replacement will be Dick Cavett, a triumph with the reviewers (TIME, June 20), if not with the ratings in two earlier ABC talk shows. But one was aired mornings, the other in prime evening time, and the hope is that in the late-night slot Cavett will finally find an audience up to his level of sophistication...
...stands before a mirror painting his face. "Strange how everything is turning out to be larger and smaller at the same time," he says. Applying the color to his forehead, he looks in the mirror with fascination. "Now I'm seeing windows all over, windows, windows. Suddenly, my face becomes like a window picture." He quickly fills in his blank cheeks with a network of lines. "What I'm painting now are the nerves beneath my face. I feel I can see through myself, look through my head, perceive its back. It expresses my innermost self. Funny...
...temporary wartime phenomenon," said Irving Rose, president of Detroit's Advance Mortgage Corp., before a convention of mortgage bankers recently. "I regard it as the inevitable price of our national commitment to a full-employment economy. Hence, it is chronic. The fever may abate somewhat from time to time, but it will never...