Word: helm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Here Comes Linton." The President was not to be outdistanced on another front. Largely forsaking his air-conditioned Lincoln Continental for the water, he has taken to spending his time at the helm of his 19-ft., 60-m.p.h. fiberglass speedboat. Particularly toward evening, when the air cools and the water stills, the President takes to 22-mile-long Lake Lyndon B. Johnson, often searching out a secluded cove where he and his party can have privacy from peering eyes. Clamping down his yellow golfer's cap, clenching the wheel like a vise, Johnson really opens up the throttle...
...voice broke as he said: "You have displayed an integrity so unquestioned that, while I would still prefer to go myself, I am willing to trust my sons [he has three, aged 14 to 24] to your administration, knowing that there is an intellectual and compassionate human at the helm." As the honoris causa hood was placed over McNamara's head, the crowd stood again and clapped...
...classified as experimental (and therefore ineligible for the winner-take-all $3,000 prize), Thunderbird had been clocked at 65 m.p.h. in practice runs. That was enough to make it the prerace favorite, but there was no shortage of high-velocity competition. Miami Boatbuilder Dick Bertram was at the helm of his diesel-powered Brave Moppie, the 1965 world champion. Following in the example of his father, a champion hydroplane racer, Gar Wood Jr. was driving Orca, a needle-nosed, 47-ft. monster that packed 1,200 horses under its deck. British hopes were pinned on Surfury, a molded plywood...
Naked Naiads. The biggest, noisiest and naughtiest contender in the new spystakes is The Silencers, with Crooner Dean Martin playing Matt Helm, a secret agent for ICE (Intelligence Counter Espionage). Its plot pits Helm against the mastermind of one of those atomic conspiracies, headquartered in what appears to be a sunken carrier under the desert near Alamogordo. But the real contest is between nudity and gadgetry. The striptease fun, with Cyd Charisse as team captain, begins during the opening credits, then gets right down to business in Martin's circular bed, which turns, travels, tilts, finally plunges him naked...
CACTUS FLOWER. France's humor, like its wine, travels well, since it is usually about a universal subject, sex. With Abe Burrows at the helm, this farce about a rouéish dentist whose idea of honesty is to tell his mistress he's married when he's not, has made a successful crossing. Lauren Bacall and Barry Nelson are on board...