Word: faked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some droned 30,000 ft. above Eastern population centers on fake bomb runs. Some roared in just 500 ft. above coastal waters. All radiated spurious electronic signals to confuse defense radar. In Colorado Springs, NORAD's commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, 56, sat in front of a giant battle screen in a windowless building, directing the simulated interceptor action that was taking place over 14 million square miles...
Died. Leonard ("Chico") Marx, 70, sly-smiling comedian whose fake Italian accent, trademark costume of velvet jacket and pointed hat, and pistol-finger piano playing backed his four younger brothers in their own brand of joyously irreverent comedy; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. In such Marx Brothers hits as Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera and A Night in Casablanca, Chico convulsed fans with his deadpan translation of horn honks made by leering Brother Harpo, his wild-eyed pocket picking and shortchanging and his Chaplinesque penchant for attracting trouble...
...Poon nearly ran into trouble over its publication because of a fake advertisement for "Reduce-a-Leg," a miracle lotion that promised to make extra pounds disappear. The ad offered two free booklets, "Hey, Fatso!" (for before use) and "Hey, Skinny!" (for after use), to anyone who returned a coupon to "Reduce-a-Leg," 14 Plympton St., Cambridge. The address is the home of the Harvard CRIMSON...
Soulless Permanents. The cost of buying perishable fresh flowers and the trouble of maintaining them have helped the fake-flower boom. Though plastic blossoms often cost more than real flowers, they rarely have to be replaced, never clipped. Chicago Motivation Researcher Irving S. White insists that people buy artificial flowers because "they are afraid of death. There is nothing so obviously symbolic of death as the wilting away of a flower. Artificial flowers give people a sense of security, a feeling that life and beauty will go on forever...
...years ago the Church of England's Social and Industrial Council condemned M.R.A.'s "hectic heartiness, its mass gaiety, and its reiterated slogans as a colossal drive of escapism from . . . responsible living." The movement has been repeatedly attacked by Roman Catholic leaders as a kind of fake religion...