Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the problems of radio and TV transmission from outer-space satellites practically solved, we can at last look forward to laxative commercials from the region of Mars, and words from our sponsor on "How to Break the Habit" from the sphere of Venus. The Man in the Moon will no doubt switch to Chesterfields-and there will be more sinister orders to come. From the ridiculous to the subliminal is only a second step...
...later married Canada-born Actor Christopher Plummer, now starring in Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. At the time, Tammy was working in the box office at the Westport (Conn.) Playhouse. "They fired me," she says, "because I lost them $500 giving away free passes." (The habit still afflicts her. At the Downstairs she is apt to answer the telephone outside her dressing room with a cheery "Yes, of course. Six for New Year's Eve. And remember, there's no minimum...
...event of such intellectual moment as the birth of a Lippmann column, the setting is deceptively casual. Lippmann, a lean, angular and agile man of 69. is dressed carelessly in his writing habit: grey pullover sweater, corduroy slacks, white wool socks and loafers. He has taken breakfast with his wife Helen, a handsome woman decidedly Lippmann's intellectual peer. He has paid brief but fond attention to his French poodles, Vicky and Coquet. He has concluded thoughtful tours of three morning papers, with stops at all the international datelines. Across Woodley Road and through his study windows drifts...
...have great commercial acumen. When, last month, Princess Ashraf was caught by French customs officials as she left France with 800,000 francs in her handbag after declaring only 10,000, many wondered how this could happen to so wealthy a woman. Cracked an old Teheran hand: "Probably habit...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The second half of a two-part documentary on dope addiction focuses on the attempts made to help one young monkey carrier kick the habit...