Word: toko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. George Seaton, 68, prolific, perdurable screenwriter (The Song of Bernadette, 1944), producer (The Bridges at Toko-Ri, 1955) and director (Airport, 1970); of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The original Lone Ranger on radio, at 22 Seaton went to Hollywood to work on comedy scripts, including the 1937 Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races. At 28 he began a partnership with Producer William Perlberg that brought Seaton two Oscars: for the screenplay Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and for his adaptation of the Clifford Odets play The Country Girl...
...just that we seem to think that we're saving something by fighting something else. And as for the billions spent, the free enterprise system has always insisted that if you don't pay for it, it's not worth it. So let's all drink(toko, drop) to the war against drugs; we haven't had such bracing good scare and concomitant national solidary since we all believed the last domino was going to fall on Los Angeles and we marched off to save South Vietnam from the Chinese Communists...