Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, on the top 15 shows there are only two continuing marriages between central characters: Bewitched's Darrin and about-to-be-pregnant Samantha Stephens, and The Dick Van Dyke Show's Rob and Laura Petrie. Since Bewitched's Samantha cheats, by cleaning the house, keeping her husband and generally managing the drudgery of life through her powers of witchcraft, that leaves the title of TV's favorite average housewife to Laura Petrie by default, and it's a shame. As played by Actress Mary Tyler Moore, she could beat the pants off any dozen...
...grin across her face in waves, and her 120 Ibs. are settled into a luscious 36-24-36 configuration that has male viewers sitting upright in their reclining chairs. Yet hardly a real-life wife objects. Instead, they take notes. And when she began delighting TV Hubby Dick Van Dyke by wearing Capri slacks, it helped make Capri slacks the biggest trend in U.S. casual attire...
Never Above the Thigh. Of course, 27-year-old Mary is more than just a looker. She is toothily, totally wholesome, with an unexpected comedy accent on the ho, can convincingly range from point-winning wit to pratfalling clown. For her labors on the Van Dyke show she recently collected the Foreign Press Golden Globe Award as the best female television personality of this year. She got an Emmy last year for the same thing. The program has consistently been in the top 15 since 1962, ranks seventh so far this year. And Mary has just recently signed a seven...
...abolition once more that the idea won the full support of the state's leading clergymen, newspapers, politicians, law-enforcement officers and finally the voters, who killed the death penalty (gas chamber) by nearly 5 to 3 in a referendum last November. Multnomah County (Portland) District Attorney George Van Hoomissen summed up Oregon's attitude: "The specter of an innocent man unjustly executed is constantly in my mind...
...impressionists and postimpressionists, including a magnificent Cézanne still life that seems to tilt a plate of cherries into the viewer's mouth, is brought together to demonstrate one of the museum's strengths. Great Renaissance paintings, still in short supply despite loans of Botticellis, Van Dycks, and an individual Bellini, Giorgione and Canaletto from the Norton Simon Foundation, share space with Andrea di Orcagna's incomparable trecento marbles of musicians with musette, timbrel and zither, like pearly leprechauns playing away the centuries...