Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Stan Laurel, 74, slim, sad-eyed master mime who with the late Oliver Hardy made some 300 of Hollywood's slaphappiest movies in the 1920s, '30s and '40s; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. A onetime London music hall comic, Laurel was the brain behind the gags and the on-screen butt of them all, the watery-eyed, squeaky-voiced noodlehead who caught Jean Harlow's dress in a car door in Double Whoopee and absorbed the custard pies in The Battle of the Century, spilled the paint, upset the ladders and destroyed...
Cast as the native villain was Farhan Attassi, 36, a Syrian-born but naturalized U.S. citizen with an American wife and until lately a local salesman of American TV films. The brain was said to be Walter Snowdon, second secretary of the U.S. embassy in Damascus. Hauled before a military court-the proceedings were televised to the accompaniment of John Philip Sousa marches-Attassi testified that "Snow don kept talking about how bad Communism was and wondered if I would help him do something." One night the Snowdons invited the Attassis to dinner. Said Attassi: "As our wives were taking...
...Saints' Hospital for the third time in eight months for treatment of a weak heart and congested lung; Actress Patricia Neal, 39, last year's Oscar winner as the housekeeper in Hud, in critical condition at Los Angeles' U.C.L.A. Medical Center after emergency surgery for massive brain hemorrhages...
...will punch a hole in the plastic and fill the hole with metal vapor that is a good conductor of electricity. Although the gas will dissipate quickly, there will be time for a brief pulse of electricity to cross the barrier and inform the satellite's electronic brain. Instruments in the satellite will record the time of each hit, identify the panel, and report roughly in what direction it was facing when...
This Holmes is a kind of boy's man whose greatest joy is tinkering with his chemistry set. In musical terms, he is a drab, antiseptic, kissproof cousin of Henry Higgins. He has his brain on his brain, and he incessantly makes love to it in Fritz Weaver's croaking brand of talkee-singee-"just a loaf of bread and a cryptogram, this were paradise enow...