Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Gibson, 32, from Philadelphia, broke into TV in the early 1960s by masquerading on talk shows as a shy, effete poet from Alabama. His portrayal was so convincing that a Birmingham newspaper ran glowing stories about him. On Laugh-In, the short, wispy-voiced comic still recites his nonsense poems, but more often is seen as the stuffy parson: "I'm all for change, but a loose-leaf Bible is going...
...past 30 years by the Michelins, who generally consider autos an adjunct to their profitable tire business. Citroën's two basic models, the tinny, 20-year-old 2 CV and the 13-year-old, bullet-nose DS, were highly successful in the 1950s and early 1960s, when automanic Frenchmen would wait months for a car. That situation no longer exists, but Pierre Bercot, an able but conservative executive who became Citroën's boss ten years ago, has not yet seen fit to modernize old models...
...program as a whipping boy," he said. "I thought that we had reached parity with the Russians about two and a half years ago." But the Soviets are proceeding "without letup" while the U.S. effort will have shrunk by mid-1969 to half what it was in the middle 1960s. As a result, Webb predicted, the Russians "will be flying more flights and developing a capability in space at a much more rapid rate than we will for the next several years...
...Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the "special master" appointed by a New York district court to assess the amount of the damages, accepted most of TWA's claims that Hughes' procrastination in securing jets for the airline had severely crippled its ability to compete in the early 1960s. Brownell set the sum that Hughes should pay TWA at $137.6 million. His report will now go to Federal Judge Charles Metzner, who is expected to in corporate its findings into a final judgment that will probably be handed down within the next two or three months...
...Exit. The many facets of Lucas Samaras will be mirrored in an exhibit of 125 drawings and constructions that goes on view next month at Manhattan's Pace Gallery. Included will be drawings that date back to the early 1960s, when he and other young artists were rebelling against the prevailing mode of abstract expression. Samaras' way of celebrating the long-ignored object was to summon up his disturbing Macedonian memories. Matchbook and spectacles, in a 1962 ink drawing, were depicted with the stark frontality of a Byzantine icon. Samaras also created silvery, pin-encrusted books and boxes...