Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mickey is preparing to return as Mike Hammer in a sequel to The Girl Hunters called The Snake. Since he is the bestselling mystery writer of all time, he is clearly just doing it for a sort of psychic fix. "Ian Fleming?" he says. "I don't worry about him. He's a gourmet...
...Psychic Fix. Mickey, in fact, did everything for real. Every Mike Hammer story has a blonde viking in it. The one in this picture is Britain's Shirley Eaton, a tall taffy goddess like the girl Hammer once shot in the navel. She wears onionskin bikinis. In the first take of a passionate scene, Mickey and Shirley were stretched out on a couch when something went wrong with the lighting. "Cut," said the director. Not Mickey. "We stayed there rehearsing for an hour while they changed the lights," he remembers. "That was Method acting, boy. The Spillane method...
...shops"-small businesses that rent their name, product, design and sales methods from big franchisers-has grown to an estimated 100,000, which this year will take in more than $1 billion. Eleven hundred companies now dispense franchises (v. only 200 in 1945) to enterprises that feed people, fix cars, clean clothes, keep books, and collect bills. Among the franchise names that have become a part of the American landscape and language are Midas Muffler, Chicken Delight, Redi-Spuds, Mugs Up and Little Pigs of America...
...regularly blast the Can-ditto's tight controls on workers from beneath the sheltering wing of the church. One such group, the Young Christian Workers, publishes an uncensored and outspoken monthly bulletin, Juventud Obrera, that demands free, Western-style labor unions, lashes out at the anachronistic sindicatos, which fix prices and wages throughout the country. Said journal Editor Francisco Guerrero, 25, describing his mission last week: "Our work is God's answer to the evil negation of all human values. It is the only salvation for Spain's masses, oppressed from above [by Franco] and menaced from...
...Teamsters to organize the county. Practically every miner in McDowell watched Dave Brinkley's report on Jimmy Hoffa and his union, and to them Hoffa looks like the messiah. "Jimmy could do it," was the general opinion. "He's tough--if we get him in here that will fix things up in short order." Tough men themselves, these miners are convinced Hoffa will understand them and their problem. But a Teamster representative recently studied the situation and reported that it was almost hopeless. The Union has no plans now to intervene...