Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime shows want to impress Minow too. The FCC chairman thinks television is unfit for human consumption, does he? A cultural slag heap? They'll show him. Result: the cultured, well-heeled flatfoot. Robert Taylor's retooled Detectives (NBC) now wear button-down collars, glen plaid suits, and shoot professorially from the mouth. "A beatnik," said one Taylor gumshoe last week, "is a vagrant with intellectual pretensions.'' ABC's The New Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly...
...probably true that many 4-F's could be inducted for limited duty, without any "trouble." At the same time, it is obviously dangerous to think of the army as a dumping ground for the mentally, morally, and physically unfit. Finally, as Maj. Gandin noted, why should the Army take men who are only half-qualified, when with no more trouble it can draft fully-qualified...
Died. David Beresford Pratt, 54, wealthy, English-born Transvaal farmer and would-be assassin who in April 1960 fired two bullets into the head of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd (who recovered), was later declared by a court to be "unfit" to stand trial; by his own hand (strangulation with a bed sheet); in a Bloemfontein, South Africa, mental institution...
...buildings are unfit for anything," he has said. "We practice education by compression...
...accusations: he charged both Gerosa and Levitt with responsibility for a deal that enabled the sponsors of a Queens housing project to make a windfall profit of $2,400,000. Understandably pained, Democrat Levitt accused Wagner of issuing a "vile, vicious slander." The mayor, he cried, was "unfit to hold public office." As for Republican Lefkowitz, who faces only token opposition in his party primary, he spent most of the week vacationing in Saratoga...