Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOLDFINGER. In another exuberant travesty of Ian Fleming's fiction, James Bond (Sean Connery) braves a mad Midas and some hilariously horrible sight gags...
...observes Daniel G. McMurtrie, 17, from Detroit's Denby High School. "It's In to be an individual and not be afraid to bring up serious questions." Jimmy Fitzpatrick, a senior at Santa Monica High School, is In with the local surfing crowd. His hero is James Bond: "He's got everything. Everyone I know wants to be like...
Black Cherry. Napoleon Solo, the hero, has his prototype too. He has been called 0061, because he is TV's approximation of James Bond. Bond is not hard to copy, however, and-given the mass audience of television-the actor who plays Solo may soon be even more celebrated than Sean Connery, who plays Bond in the movies. The U.N.C.L.E. man's real name is Robert Vaughn. He is 32, and he is on his way to his first million. Impoverished a couple of years ago, he now has increasing herds of livestock and several gas wells...
There is much about Vaughn that recalls both Bond and Solo. Off the screen, he is a swinging bachelor who drives around in a Lincoln Continental convertible, which he insists is not maroon in color but "black cherry." The car has a telephone and a monaural tape machine; it will soon have two telephones, a TV set, a stereo tape recorder, an icemaking midget refrigerator and a walnut-paneled bar. He is a wine lover and a gourmet...
...single office building had gone up in the center of the city since 1928, and the downtown area was a sleazy jungle of honky-tonks and arcades. Suburban shopping centers had relentlessly whittled downtown retail volume; the city faced a 30% decline in sales revenue by 1962. A successful bond issue was as rare as snow. Despite 35 separate attempts to build one, San Diego remained a city without a convention hall. In virtually every other sector of the economy from transit to schools, San Diego was lagging far behind lesser and less-blessed cities...