Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laurels of success. With a rock-hard defense turned butter-soft, their record at mid-season was an embarrassing 4-3, and only the slingshot passes of Quarterback Johnny Unitas saved the Colts from a worse showing. Not until recent weeks did the Colts turn frisky again, climb to a first-place tie in the Western Conference with the faltering San Francisco Forty-Niners...
Third Man on the Mountain. Walt Disney's cliff hanger for the kids, who will probably believe that rock climbing is the spectacular cinch it seems to be in this film, and will certainly enjoy the entirely fictional story about a boy who showed the grownups how to climb the Matterhorn...
...Diahann Carroll, "like I'm kind of at the bottom of the top; the best part of the beginning is now." Farther up the ladder roost more gaudily plumed stars of Singer Carroll's spotlighted world-Lena Home, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte. That last rung of the climb is sometimes the trickiest, as countless slipped disks will testify. But when she moved into the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel last week, Diahann trailed the kind of notices no new female singer has received in years. Twice each night she demonstrated...
...Contract awards for factories, stores and office buildings continued a two-month climb and pushed October nonresidential construction awards to a record $1,003,457,000, or 5% ahead of last year...
...program. Although Bandstand played some of Clark's own tunes that became hits (Tallahassie Lassie, Okefenokee), he and Mammarella insist that they were played only because they were popular already. But Clark has also spun his Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, which is just now beginning to climb into the big time. Clark insists that he has never taken payola in any form, and many support him, including ABC. Says a Philadelphia record distributor: "Dick is a living doll. I've offered him pieces of songs and gotten turned down cold...