Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay in a title bout against his Bum-of-the-Month, this time Britain's Brian London, live by satellite from Earls Court, London...
...section under a Negro master sergeant. His superiors and buddies alike were unanimous in pronouncing him a regular guy and a hard worker. He handled requests for interviews by not giving any. He was photographed on KP duty, and pictures of Nugent tromping down garbage and washing dishes got wide circulation...
...some of the noisiest slaughter scenes ever filmed. It took 70,000 gallons of water a day just to keep the cast from evaporating, and United Artists sent enough medical equipment out on location to serve a division in Viet Nam. Nonetheless Khartoum is not just another exercise in wide-screen warfare: emphasizing subtlety rather than savagery, it convincingly retells the story of a complex military hero who died in one of history's more fascinating lost causes...
...recording companies are wide-awake to the marketing possibilities of the tapes. In December, RCA Victor will introduce "minimum concentration" language courses, plans later to bring out quiz games and storytelling tapes to pacify children on long trips. Doctors use the tapes to keep up with the medical news, traveling salesmen to hear pep talks from company executives. Editor William Buckley listens to Shakespeare's plays when driving to work; Jerry Lewis listens to scripts en route to the studio. Hundreds of players have been installed in powerboats and airplanes, as well as in funeral limousines, which broadcast hymns...
...platitudinous monologue written by Allan Lomax marred Saturday night's concert. The script eulogized America's "wide prairies" and "tumble-down churches" and was intended to unify the program. Unfortunately, it only succeeded in flattening an evening that included such highly original talents as Joseph Spence, Ed Young and the Southern Fife And Drum Corps, Yomo Toro, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Billie and Dede Pierce, and the Lovin' Spoonful. The eagerly anticipated Chuck Berry failed to appear...