Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bizarre technical contrivances. It is always the "how" of a story that keeps viewers pinned to their TV sets, since nearly everything else on the program is deliberately made familiar. At the opening, Peter Graves, 41, as Impossible Mission Leader Jim Phelps, enters a phone booth, warehouse or parked car, finds a hidden tape recorder, and turns it on. "Good morning, Mr. Phelps..." it begins, and then outlines the task: recover something crucial that has been stolen or prevent the supervillains from achieving some dastardly scheme. At the end of the recording the tape destroys itself in a pouf...
...might have been laid out according to the McLuhan notion that in TV, form counts more than content. In M:I the Tinkertoy stuff on the screen is far more important than plot logic. In one elaborate ruse, the M:I team stole a whole train and pulled one car full of passengers into a shed where, with the help of films and sound effects, they convinced the passengers that there had been a wreck. In another, they saved the day by starting an earthquake with supersonic waves. This week, they unnerved a murder-for-hire chieftain by making...
...when the doctor delivered his fifth child (of eleven) and announced: "The only difference between your son and you is that he doesn't eat so much." Bobby weighed 12 Ibs. at birth. His father, a 240-lb. cement worker, could lift the front end of a car, and he was also a fair country hockey player-which is what folks do to keep warm in the long Ontario winters...
...Hotel, car-rental and other service costs for foreign visitors are being lowered by a number of concerns. Seven hotel and motel chains-including Hilton, Knott and Hotel Corp. of America-have already introduced assorted room rate cuts of up to 40%. Also in effect are new 10% reductions in the rates of the three biggest auto rental companies, Hertz, Avis and National...
...humor had a bitter quality, exemplified by the aircraft designer viewing a flaming crash with the comment: "Well, back to the old drawing board." But he was at his best with the double-entendre, as in his 1929 scene of a couple emerging from the woods clutching a car seat and telling a cop, "We want to report a stolen car...