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...show into an uproar in 1965. Ames, a deadeye natural athlete who can hit a bull's-eye from 20 paces with a bowie knife, went on the Carson program as a guest. According to the script, he was to fling a tomahawk at an eight-foot-high cardboard cutout of a cowboy; during rehearsal, he hit the target in the heart 19 times straight. On the air, old Mingo took aim, let fly and ripped the cutout right in the crotch. Carson, his crew and the audience broke into a hysterical orgy of laughter that...
...checks for the past year or two. When the money is coming in, however, most banks are still happy to take it any way it comes. Declared an officer of Atlanta's Citizens & Southern National Bank: "A check can be written on a door or a piece of cardboard or carved in stone. We'll still accept...
Between sessions at a conference on religion and the arts at the New York Hilton last week, delegates wandered through a maze of 1,500 cardboard boxes stacked seven feet high in two exhibition halls. Pasted on the vividly painted cartons were collages of photographs from Viet Nam, Newark and Vogue, bits of magazine ads, scribbled quotations from John Kennedy, Albert Camus and Beatle John Lennon. In effect, the exhibit - entitled "Survival with Style"- was a dramatic plea to man's conscience. A message in blank verse invited viewers to mull over the maze and "find alternatives...
Across Iowa's corn country, huge machines with anteater snouts gulp the ears off 8-ft.-high cornstalks, an instant later spit golden kernels into self-contained bins. In California, packing machines out in the fields seal freshly picked lettuce heads in plastic, drop them into cardboard boxes, then dis gorge the boxes ready for market. On farms in the Southwest, machines work the fields with surgical precision, injecting minuscule broccoli seeds one by one into the soil at measured intervals...
That led to her long-term Disney contract-and Pollyanna, The Parent Trap, The Castaways, Summer Magic, The Moon Spinners and That Darn Cat. "Even though the stories weren't very real and the characters were essentially cardboard," she says, "I was learning the mechanics of my craft, and had a chance to indulge myself." But not too much. "If I got good notices for something," she recalls, "my family just said, That's very nice, dear. Now go and make your...