Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Morgan has spent millions harvesting civilization's mystic wisdom. Ford, in his ready-made suit and L.L. Bean shoes, notes dryly that his occult education came from a 250 booklet ordered from the Franklin Novelty Co. of Philadelphia. It is the same organization that will buy moving-picture flip-books from a penniless Jewish immigrant. The peddler will end in Hollywood as Baron Ashkenazy, producer of those Rosetta stones of American nostalgia, the Our Gang comedies...
...skipper of a spanking new sloop called the Oxy will find his life at sea far easier than Slocum's when he sails in a singlehanded race across the Atlantic next year. If he wants to relax and leave the helm, all he will have to do is flip a switch on an electronic self-steering device; day or night, an array of dials on an instrument panel will tell if he is getting the best performance out of his boat. Small, hand-held computers will zip through calculations that cost Slocum tedious hours...
...Funnyman Flip Wilson might just be the biggest thing to hit Boley, Okla. (pop. 500) since the dust storms of the 1930s. When the town adopted the TV comedian as its honorary police chief last February, Wilson promised to contribute $10,000 for a new swimming pool. Last week he came to deliver. "We've got a $5,000 check for a police car," proclaimed Wilson during festivities for the town's 70th anniversary, "and now we're going to start working on $22,000 for a fire truck." Great, but what about the pool? "He wanted...
...WRIST FLIP. The Frisbee is held behind the back, with the arm stiff, and is released while the player is leaping in the air, with much the same motion as a discus throw...
...back in the hit comedy Same Time, Next Year, Rex Harrison and Julie Harris star in In Praise of Love, and Ingrid Bergman is in The Constant Wife. Cleavon Little escaped Mel Brooks' clutches long enough to run off with the notices in Murray Schisgal's flip farce All Over Town, and Elizabeth Ashley returned triumphantly in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The British sent over a generation of stars, including Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg playing together with the finesse of the Lunts in The Misanthrope, John Wood portraying a rapier-sharp Sherlock Holmes, Anthony Hopkins...