Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAND OF THE GIANTS (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). Sugar Ray Robinson is a trumpet-playing giant who promises freedom to the crew of a wrecked spaceship if Copilot Don Marshall will agree to give him jazz lessons on the horn...
...learned to go to school, devoted himself to his own research in "God's little workshop," and eventually developed 300 useful products from the peanut, 118 from the sweet potato, and more than 60 from the pecan. And W. C. Handy, who taught himself how to play a $1.75 trumpet, joined a band of roving minstrels, and became famous writing songs like "St. Louis Blues." After his success, his father told him, "Sonny, I am very proud of you and forgive you for becoming a musician...
...Acanthaster plague baffles scientists. It could be a periodic natural phenomenon; many species mysteriously multiply for a time, then inexplicably decline in number. A more probable explanation is that man has upset the reefs delicate ecological balance. By relentlessly hunting for a rare trumpet-shaped mollusk called the giant triton, some scientists say, shell collectors have taken a devastating toll of one of the crown-of-thorns' few natural enemies. Other scientists speculate that the imbalance may have been caused by dredging and underwater blasting, lingering pesticides or even radioactive fallout...
...they like doing it. Whether it's Bobby Columbo grinning like an idiot and driving into his drums the same way, Loy Solow with a trumpet soliloquy, or David Clavton Thomas making love to his microphone, they're happy up there. It's too simple an explanation of their sound to say that they're the first jazz-rock group to use brass really well-their sound brings it all, rock, jazz, blues and soul, together--but it's still true. When they laugh at each other, When they laugh at each other, when they laugh at you, you know...
Flat Sales. "I've been looking for this kind of evidence for some time now, but I still want another month before I take out the trumpet and start to blow it," said William Butler, vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. His caution was echoed by other business and Government economists. The leading indicators, however, reveal a significant slowdown in construction, commitments for new plant and equipment and general investment activity. Retail sales have flattened in recent months, and the actual volume of sales-discounting inflation-has not risen at all over the past year. The evidence suggests...