Word: germs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). As usual, utterly preposterous, but fun for that reason. In this installment. Agent Solo (Robert Vaughn) is ordered to destroy some germ-loaded missiles that are being used to goad the U.S. and the Soviet Union into atomic...
...miles off the U.S.'s coastline and still set off a 50-ft. tidal wave that would sweep across much of the entire North American continent? Was it a cobalt bomb that would send a deadly cloud sweeping forever about the earth? A "death ray" or a germ bomb? Or even an empty boast? Two days later Nikita Khrushchev said it wasn't nuclear, and, besides, he had been misinterpreted. For public consumption, his weapon had been cooled...
...that he's rundown. Each day Bobo gets a massive dose of vitamin E, swigs pure wheat-germ oil, eight raw egg yolks, a jigger of thiamine and a 20-mg. jolt of male hormones. Each day also brings more letters, aphrodisiac recipes and snide phone calls from citizens who don't like what Bobo is doing to their city's image. Many Seattleites volunteer remedies: "Send Fifi away on a separate vacation," wrote one woman. "It works for me every time. Bobo will love her when she comes back." A man who lives on Puget Sound...
Much waggish speculation has been devoted to how long it would take a dozen apes locked in a room with a dozen typewriters to reproduce the complete works of William Shakespeare. The germ of thought back of this idea is that typewriters have an elemental fascination and pedagogical possibilities. Rutgers Psychology Professor Omar Khayyam Moore decided a few years ago to try teaching children to read using an electric typewriter...
Doctor in Distress is a movie title containing a germ of self-diagnosis. Britain's popular Doctor series, begun nearly ten years ago, has, with this fifth reprise, taken a decided turn for the worse. All the hospital hanky-panky is still there. All the droll British bit players. All the anatomical jokes, delivered by Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) and Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), whose medicareers have provided them with a decade of job security. But the humor has grown progressively more frail, foolish and familiar. Nobody really cares when the adipose Sir Lancelot goes...