Word: guess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bible Storyland represents the vision mainly of Promoter Nat Winecoff, who cut his teeth at Disneyland, now humbly admits: "I guess the Lord just took me by the hand." The idea was originally suggested by a Roman Catholic priest who wanted an adjunct for his parish church, roughly in the $75,000 range. Winecoff outgrew the parish quickly. With private financing from such angels as Comedian Jack Haley and Donald F. Duncan, the parking-meter and Yo-Yo king, the project has now reached the $15 million stage. Promises Angel Haley: "Bible Storyland is not going to offend the sensibilities...
...TIME'S sweepstakes inviting readers to guess whom the editors would choose as Man of the Year, Eisenhower ran first with 25%, Castro second with 18%, and Khrushchev third with 9% of the votes. Readers who nominated their own candidate voted: Eisenhower, first; Dr. Thomas Dooley of Laos, second; Castro, third...
...Unaccustomed as I am to public thinking," said Gene Robertson, "it would be difficult to tell you how." He thought for a second and added thoughtfully "I guess seven preppies don't really constitute the public...
...think I'm going to laugh," Miss McKenna said. "I'm not going to be able to help myself. All the directors and producers are having heart attacks, and most of my friends will have heart attacks soon. I guess someday I'll have one myself. It's a good way to go, I guess...
...presenting his credentials as an essayist, Poet-Critic Allen Tate, 60, makes a mock show of inadequacy. He laments his failure to do research, bewails his faulty memory, confesses that, although he has been writing it for 30 years, he can neither define literary criticism nor guess its aims. Yet Tate confidently jabs his critical stiletto into a wide range of men and institutions, from Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson ("the light-bearer who could see nothing but light, and was fearfully blind") to criticism itself (it "is in at least one respect like a mule: it cannot reproduce itself, though...