Word: wagoneer
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...prairie schooner stands ominously alone (circa A.D. 1860) on the dreary reaches of the Western flats. The boss of the approaching wagon train is understandably puzzled. He rides up to investigate. Just as he is about to tug at the wagon's flap, he hears a strange whirring. He pulls back just in time to escape the downward thrust of a thin-bladed sword. A samisen twangs weirdly on the sound track and a mustachioed Japanese samurai, complete with formal helmet and robe, emerges into the prairie glare...
...like a tippler who stays on the wagon for weeks only to allow himself an occasional major binge. After a long dry spell, CBS and ABC last weekend went on a big, glorious bender...
...Protestantism's bright young men, Martin Emil Marty, 30, minister of the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit in suburban Elk Grove Village, Ill., characterizes his life as "typically grey flannel: station wagon, barbecue pit, and all that goes with it." Nebraska-born "Marty" Marty is also an associate editor of the nondenominational Christian Century, and in last week's issue he winds up a six-installment series on religion in America that, clotted though it is with the fashionable jargon of the social analysts, is a perceptive young man's view of what he seems...
...Westerns are rustling more TViewers than ever, reported the Nielsen rating service. Latest western reading: four of the top five nighttime shows, eleven of the top 20. The roundup: Gunsmoke (37-7), Wagon Train (32.4), Danny Thomas (32.1), Have Gun, Will Travel (30.8), Wells Fargo (30.2), Desilu Playhouse (30.1), I've Got a Secret (29.5), Wyatt Earp (29.2), Ann Sothern Show (28.7), Cheyenne (28.2), Peter Gunn (27.8), Real McCoys (27.5), Rifleman (27.5), The Price Is Right (27.4), Want-ed-Dead or Alive (27.3), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (27.1), Father Knows Best (27.0), General Electric Theatre (26.6), Texan (26.4), Maverick...
...color combinations. Renault, which has sold 1,000,000 baby cars in the last ten years, is moving into the sports-car class with a snappy two-seater called the Floride at $2,023. And everyone from Citroen to Britain's Austin is jumping into the station-wagon market with low-priced cars that combine the features of conventional sedans long popular with Europe's buyers with the roominess of businesslike carryalls...