Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position from Laos to the U.N. By sending 28 divisions on far-flung battle exercises through Eastern Europe this week, Khrushchev would impress many delegates, even if he did not succeed in intimidating the West. Soviet experts predicted that he would cap the Congress with a spectacular space feat or a vast nuclear explosion...
Since ABC discovered that stupendous profits can be made through the production of stupendous mediocrity, the other two networks have conformed nicely, performing the difficult feat of lowering their own standards. From precooked oatmeal to precast bullets, everyone is importing packaged pap from Hollywood by the case. But above all, the 1961-62 television season may go down in history as the year that canned laughter made its greatest comeback. Every new sitchcom (adspeak for situation comedy) is a masterpiece of electronic control: three hees and a hah for a cracking knuckle or a lifted eyebrow, a two-decibel avalanche...
Until the very end of the season, the newspapers, the public, and the rest of the National League steadfastly refused to take notice of the Redleg's feat, feeling that if they could only blink their eyes hard enough the specter would go away. Finally, as the year drew to a close, the bemused Cincinnati fans allowed themselves some dancing in the streets; but the resulting chaos was nothing like what Cincinnati could have done had its denizens been able to convince themselves the whole thing was true...
Everybody seemed pretty happy; it was almost like a successful political rally. Applause greeted the assertion that "TV is an advertising medium disguised as entertainment." After this great feat of perception, Kazan revealed that ticket prices are too high on Broadway. "When I took my family to the theatre last week, the tab for the five of us was fifty dollars," he said, "and I resented it like Hell." (Scattered laughter and several nods of sympathy...
Even old Henry Ford, accustomed as he was to thinking big, would have been impressed by his grandson's latest feat. In one of the largest industrial mergers in U.S. history, Ford Motor Co. last week proposed to buy outright control of Philadelphia's Philco Corp. Terms: one share of Ford for each 4½ shares of Philco common, $101.50 in Ford common (plus cash equal to accrued dividends) for each share of Philco preferred. Estimated cost to Ford: $110 to $120 million...