Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing, he is a weekend victim, compelled by his family to rise and shine even on his days off. A Manhattan department store took full-page newspaper ads to urge that on the one Sunday that was his Day Dad be allowed to sleep late...
...needs a $4 branding iron to remind him which should be rare, medium and well done. Making the martinis is also a struggle: to solve the how-much-vermouth problem there are Martini Stones ($3), to be soaked in vermouth, then dropped into each glass so that all Dad has to do is ice the gin and pour...
...office, away from those protective family ties, Dad is visualized as a slack-jawed spendthrift with a will of tin foil. Loving ones may keep him out of expensive restaurants with a $4.25 Executive Lunch Bag (including place mat and matching napkin). There is also a do-it-yourself shoeshine kit for $5.95, disguised as a statusful French phone, with a hand bank built in to hold the money the man saves for his family with his elbow grease. And to help the will-less fellow cut down his smoking, there is a cigarette case with a time lock that...
...surprisingly, Dad is not at all well. To organize his pill-popping: an $8.95 pillbox with generous compartments for every day in the week so that the poor man will know when...
...whipping a Lockheed TF-104G Super Starfighter through the supersonic corridor near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at twice the speed of sound. Toni, a Pasadena high school senior and very likely the world's fastest teenager, held a pace of 1,325-1,350 m.p.h., with Dad as her copilot-and Dad is Supersonic Flight Pioneer A. W. ("Tony") LeVier, 50, now Lockheed-California's director of flying operations. With another father-daughter stunt in the offing, a cross-country flight to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Toni nevertheless talks like a girl whose aims are thoroughly...