Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director of the University of California's Livermore Laboratory. A year later he moved to Defense, first as director of research and, from 1965 to 1969, as Secretary of the Air Force. Because of his skepticism about many weapons projects, he was nicknamed Dr. No, for the James Bond character. He helped kill the B70 bomber, which was vulnerable to Soviet air defenses. He also was involved in two expensive mistakes: the FTX fighter-bomber, and the Air Force's C-5A transport, whose construction resulted in cost overruns of $2 billion...
...United States. He invariably finds it difficult to be absolutely detached. He does not look at the U.S. as though it were a totally strange country thousands of miles away. The reason goes beyond the presence there of a great Jewish community with which there exists a profound bond of religion and history. It reaches deep into the national instinct...
...feckless way. Marvin overacts outrageously, sometimes lapsing into a full-fledged imitation of W.C. Fields gone native. Parkins is pretty, and Moore deft and quite amusing as a sort of good-hearted dolt. Director Peter Hunt (Gold) got his start as film editor on the early James Bond adventures and knows how to work on the funny bone even as he stages a punchy scene. The movie hardly wants for plot or action, but could have done with a little more sense. This, however, might have slowed it down or even tripped it up completely. Shout at the Devil...
...Sean Connery arrived last night. Even though he starred in six James Bond movies, Connery says he can't make any sense out of our script...
Stewart sat and waited for several hours, his imagination speculating wildly on the reasons for all these James Bond-like instructions...