Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...adult and teen-ager in America" to promise to boycott about 100 products for three months. As a reminder, the members of the movement get a wallet-size card listing products that are outlawed by the movement. Included are such familiar American Home items as Dristan, Anacin, Chef Boyardee, Wizard air freshener and Woolite, and General Foods' Gravy Train dog food, Kool-Aid, Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods and JellO. (Asks an outraged General Foods executive: "How can anyone consider Jell-O un-American?") In Dayton, the Belmont Church of Christ sent in 200 cards and passed...
Multiflex wizard Joe Restic's game plan was working as perhaps he only knew it could. By foregoing the services of stellar split end Rich Horner, who was on the verge of going down in the books as the second-greatest receiver in Harvard history, and instead utilizing previously unknown quantities of Callinan and Hollingsworth, Restic befuddled the Elis...
Multiflex wizard Joe Restic's game plan was working as perhaps he only knew it could. By foregoing the services of stellar split end Rich Horner, who was on the verge of going down in the books as the second-greatest receiver in Harvard history, and instead utilizing previously unknown quantities of Callinan and Hollingsworth, Restic befuddled the Elis...
...commercial networks long gave science short shrift, except when it came to moon landings or Mr. Wizard-like kiddie shows. Now they too are moving into expanded coverage. ABC has a possible science series for next year, an offshoot of 20/20 tentatively titled Quest. At CBS, programmers are considering whether to give Walter Cronkite's Universe, an occasional half-hour science news show that has got a moderately good reception, a regular evening time slot. One factor that will surely affect the decision: the response of viewers to Sagan's Cosmos...
...scary. Wilkinson led the crowd of 400 across the field to the cross and, cautioning spectators to stay out of range of the flames, distributed torches to the 40 or 50 hooded Klansmen. After explaining the religious significance of the ceremony--"Christ's purifying light will shine forever"--the Wizard told his followers to light their gasoline-soaked torches. Barking out his orders, he had them circle the cross three times and then wave their torches up and down, up and down, up and down, slowly so the whoosh could be heard. "Klansmen to the cross," he intoned solemnly...