Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compliments on the informative, accurate, and very readable article explaining those Lilliputian giants-integrated circuits [Sept. 2]. As an electronics engineer working toward a doctorate in the field, I feel a very keen anticipation for the Dick Tracy wrist TV communicator and the domestic computerized control center in each home-both well within economic possibility because of those highly processed wafers of sand (silicon). You have removed part of the mystery that the general public feels surrounding the operation and fabrication of such unfathomably tiny circuits...
...when the supply of columnists seemed almost suffocating. Most performed predictably: Joseph Alsop was back full of high optimism about the war in Viet Nam; Henry J. Taylor took up space with a familiar complaint about undercover "Red spies" at the U.N. Others lent the paper a noticeable lift. Dick Schaap and Jimmy Breslin took a fresh look at the opening of the city's schools and a dress rehearsal at the Metropolitan opera. Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker was at her caustic best...
...predecessors. It will be broken into four sections, and in makeup and type, Page 1 of the first section will be reminiscent of the Telegram. The first page of the second section will have a calculated familiarity for old Trib readers, as it gives prominence to Columnists Dick Schaap, Art Buchwald and Jimmy Breslin. Pages 2 and 3 of the second section will contain the editorials and a constantly changing panorama of other columnists-for all the world like the departed Journal-American...
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Daddy, it says here, invaded Sicily. It also says here that the invasion of Sicily, as veterans of the 1943 operation may or may not recall, was really just a million laughs. Like, haha, the pointy-headed captain (Dick Shawn) who went by the regulation book right down to the last typographical error. Or the takeover lieutenant (James Coburn) who possessed a unique gift for bringing disorder out of chaos. And remember the no-neck sergeant (Aldo Ray) who hollered so loud he scared the roaches out of the popcorn...
...TAMMY GRIMES SHOW (ABC, 8:309 p.m.). A contemporary comedy series starring Tammy in beyond-the-fringe situations, with Dick Sargent and Hiram Sherman...