Word: furred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aeromedical Field Laboratory, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, about 20 chimponauts have almost finished their training this week for the fur-raising duty of pioneering in space psychology. Presumably they will teach their tormentors whether a spaceborne man will be psychologically capable of managing the instruments and communications of his swiftly moving craft. Since chimps are easier to train before they reach puberty, the pioneers are all relatively younger than the seven human astronauts, all married and fathers, who are training for the Mercury man-in-space program. Of the more promising chimponauts, only one is American-born...
Make Mine Mink. Another suitably dotty but amiable bit of British nonsense, casting Comedian Terry-Thomas as a Robin-Hoodish retired major who masterminds (and sometimes absent-minds) a fur-shop larceny...
...that could lend vast new dimensions to the science of geriatrics: Why not organize a crime syndicate and devote the profits to a Worthy Cause? "Splendid!" cries the major, and in absurdly elaborate military detail he proceeds to plan an assault on the gang's first objective, a fur shop. Naturally, everything that can possibly go wrong goes as wrong as possible, but somehow the charitable criminals manage to creak home with half their haul-the other half is absentmindedly left in a taxi. Stumbling and bumbling from success to hilarious success, the mink mob is soon established...
Outside of the University he has been a part of an unusual variety of business and governmental enterprises, including the United Artists Theatre Circuit, the Civil Aeronantics Board, the New York Fur Manufacturing committee, the National Power Policy Commission and the Office of Civil Defense, which he directed during World...
...Mora ranch, where he promptly sold all the family cattle and spent the money in a glorious fling in Bilbao. When the money ran out, Jimmy supported himself by playing the piano in a local bar. Visitors to Jimmy's overstuffed Madrid apartment are impressed by his fur-lined easy chair, stupefied by the flowers that are banked everywhere, even in the bathroom, and often intimidated by his bad-tempered chow dog and five enthusiastic great Danes. Jaime's mother, Dona Blanca de Aragón, outdoes him by keeping 53 dogs and 26 cats in the family...