Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Second semifinal bout in the elimination tournament to find a new heavyweight boxing champion: Thad Spencer v. Jerry Quarry, live from Oakland, Calif...
...Sits a wide-eyed monkey...
Computers and the men necessary to run them have nourished a new breed of railroaders-management experts with wide-ranging interests. And they, in turn, have fueled the railroads' drive to diversify-if the Government eases up-into related areas of transportation. The Missouri Pacific, which already owns two truck lines extending 17,000 miles, last week applied to the CAB for permission to start an air-freight service. Says W. Graham Claytor Jr., new president of the Southern: "The railroads must press hard for the right to sell transportation, not railroad service. Then they must supply...
...county police were armed with warrants based on evidence turned up by hippie-clad agents who had been planted on the campus to mingle in Stony Brook's wide-open dormitories. The spies claimed they had taken part in a large LSD party in a dormitory lounge, witnessed many drug sales, mainly of marijuana but also of opium and mescaline. The university's supervision of the dorms was so lax, police charged, that a number of nonstudents seeking kicks had moved right in. Following agent-drawn maps of where suspects lived, surprised raiders barged into one room...
...sleazy theatrical producer (Zero Mostel) enlists the aid of his wide-eyed accountant (Gene Wilder) in a convoluted cabal. Given the improper circumstances, a Broadway entrepreneur can make more from a flop than he can from a hit-by pocketing the backers' money after the show folds. Accordingly, the two men begin a search for the world's worst script. Mostel finally zeroes in on Springtime for Hitler, written by an unrepentant Nazi who believes that the Führer was infinitely superior to Churchill because he had more hair and besides, he was a better painter...