Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actors are the whole show, and shrewd Producer-Director Fielder Cook simply collects a boodle of famous and not-so-famous faces in a smoke-filled room, leaving the rest to hot hands and ham instincts. In a plot that tingles with incentives, "the five richest men in the territory" converge on a poky frontier town for their annual poker classic. An Indian massacre would probably cause less excitement, certainly less fanaticism. To get there on time, Mortician Charles Bickford all but burns the wheels off his best hearse. Landowner Jason Robards, biting into every line like a hungry barracuda...
...mock-heroic tension of the game has been soundly established when Director Cook brings on his ace. Henry Fonda, in a lip-twitching portrait of a loser, appears as a homesteader en route to a 40-acre chunk of Texas with his plucky little wife (Joanne Woodward) and his young son. Though he has sworn off cards, Fonda breaks into a cold sweat as soon as he sniffs the deck, possibly because he shuffles so poorly. The imminent loss of his life savings brings on a heart attack and, with a final $20,500 pot at stake, Joanne primly takes...
...acid, which is difficult to make (it is derived from ergot, a cereal fungus), continues to be smuggled in from Canada, Mexico and Europe. Given the acid to start with, LSD is relatively easy to cook up for anyone with a working knowledge of chemistry. Essentially, what is required is a batch of lysergic acid dissolved in some other chemicals plus a solution of diethylamine (a volatile liquid used in processes like vulcanizing). The two batches, cooled to freezing and stirred together, result in a solution that contains LSD. The trick is to extract the LSD from the solution. This...
...Cuba's biggest states of alert since the Bay of Pigs. All around the island, armed troops and civilians alike were watching coastlines, spotter planes were poised for takeoff and Havana radio was crackling with a call to arms -as part of a new Castro effort to cook up a crisis with...
...months his wife and personal cook have been trying to get the boss to watch those between-meal snacks. But sometimes, tattled Deputy White House Press Secretary Robert Fleming, 54, Lyndon Johnson gets sneaky about it. Not long ago, Fleming told a group of labor editors, the President tiptoed into the kitchen late one night to raid the icebox. Just as he was digging into some tapioca pudding, the scraping of his metal spoon against the pan aroused Lady Bird, who must have the ears of an Apache scout. She chewed him out. Unrepentant, the President studied the problem...