Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Talking Horse inspired emulation. CBS's My Mother the Car tried combining the U.S. fascination with cars, sex and Mom. But something happened in casting: the car is a 1928 convertible; Mother (who returns to earth from celestial regions, using the car radio as a voice box) is an invisible Ann Sothern; and as for Hero Jerry Van Dyke, he has finally answered the question, what is it that Jerry hasn't got that Brother Dick has? The Smothers Brothers also tried to cope with the Great Beyond. Tom Smothers is drowned at sea, returns to visit...
...prelates petitioned him "most urgently" for approval. At the time, council progressives were horrified. As things have turned out now, even Jesuit John Courtney Murray, a principal architect of the declaration, agrees that the text before the fathers at the fourth session is stronger than ever (see box). "The losers won a delay," says Bishop Robert E. Tracy of Baton Rouge. "The winners won a document." Last week, in one of the strongest exchanges of views since the council began, three U.S. cardinals?Gushing of Boston, Spellman of New York, Ritter of St. Louis?were among the prelates who defended...
...appreciated for its true, priceless worth. This is one of the noblest classic ballet companies of all time . . . The range of Balanchine is fantastic." He is the "unending, unflagging Mozart among choreographers." When the reviews appeared, the tickets were snapped up in a box-office crush that has meant S.R.O. audiences ever since...
...sexual compatibility of its two stars: Frenchman Alain Delon, who rates as a kind of male Bardot, and Hollywood's Ann-Margret (Bus Riley's Back in Town), who proves once again that it was good looks, not good acting, that made her the outstanding young box-office attraction...
...Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston soon traced the trouble: human error on the ground, not in space. One of the controllers at Houston had fed incorrect information to the big computer system on the ground, which in turn relayed the wrong re-entry calculations to the shoe-box-sized computer aboard Gemini 5. Said Howard W. Tindall Jr., mission-planning and analysis officer at Houston: "After all, it's only our second try at controlling reentry. We'll prove yet that it can be done...