Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with an amusing roadblock to the altar-Dick's mother. Zestfully played by Kay Medford, she is a murderously possessive mamma forever jabbering of self-sacrifice, threatening suicide and pleading for a minimum in funerals: "Just wait till Mother's Day, wrap me in a flag, and dump me in the river." With contrasting skill, Paul Lynde plays a teen-ager's father trying to assert himself, first at home, then scene-stealingly...
...Orient Express never quite reached-the Orient. As he is so fond of doing, British Author Ambler begins with a fragile seed of evil: a cache of arms established in Malaya by Communist terrorists after World War II. The terrorists are killed in an ambush, and the arms dump is lost. But a thoughtful Indian plantation clerk deduces that it must exist, and to satisfy his curiosity begins to search for it. Months later the clerk finds the weapons, still unrusted, and he feels that it would be a pity to turn such a windfall over to the police...
CAPITAL AIRLINES, having trouble breaking into a jet-age profit (1959 loss: more than $1,000,000), will have its corporate face lifted to present a more attractive appearance to travelers. Capital will dump its "garish red" color scheme in favor of a "soothing blue," will retire its flying eagle trademark for a new oval...