Word: disneylands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...1930s, Eaton's vision had caught the California eye. On weekends, happy Californians packed the place like an amusement park, a sort of Disneyland of death. Some came to see the statues or to inspect the graves of their favorite show people-Tom Mix, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Irving Thalberg, Marie Dressier, Flo Ziegfeld are buried in Forest Lawn. Many found that the 100.000 shrubs provided plenty of quiet places to neck in. Eaton encouraged them all, and reached them all with the Forest Lawn message: "Everything at time of sorrow, in one sacred place, under one friendly management...
...there, the pattern was clear: crowd-pleasing filmed series, westerns, cops, crime. Kintner feels that he had no alternative if he wanted to save ABC from being crushed by its two bigger competitors. During Kintner's presidency, ABC added 60 stations, boosted ratings. Kintner signed up Disneyland (for $2,000,000), built a good newscasting staff, including John Daly. He also turned down a chance to sign up The $64,000 Question: "It didn't seem to make sense-not, I hasten to add, because of moral grounds...
Khrushchev's face turned darker; he began to shake his head, clench his fists, pound the table, as the audience looked on in amazement. "But just now," he said, "I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked: 'Why not? What is it? Do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know.' And just listen, just listen to what I was told, to what reason I was told. We, which means the American authorities, cannot guarantee your security if you go there...
...much enjoy the Soviet artists you have sent to this country." After Frank introduced the song Live and Let Live, he said to Khrushchev: "It's a marvelous idea." And as he heard Frank talk, watched Shirley and the chorus girls upend, Khrushchev grinned. Going back over the Disneyland outburst, he said that the studio commissary had been hot, and he had been hotheaded, and he even apologized for his words. When Kim Novak was ushered up to him, Khrushchev said to Kim: "You realty wowed Mikoyan...
...With Disneyland off limits, Khrushchev was driven behind police escort through shopping centers, housing developments, and the U.C.L.A. campus. Ambassador Lodge told Khrushchev that he could stop anywhere; Khrushchev, once again detached and dubious-looking, chose not to stop anywhere, hardly looked out of the windows of his closed car. That night at a civic dinner in the Ambassador Hotel, Khrushchev found himself once again beside Los Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson. Poulson keynoted a speech in which he was supposed to be introducing Khrushchev to an echo of Patrick Henry. "You shall not bury us," he told Khrushchev...