Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wham-O. Even if Frisbee eventually becomes a professional sport, as some observers fear, there is still likely to be more money in selling the disks than in flipping them. Twenty-four years ago, a Los Angeles building inspector named Fred Morrison invented the Frisbee after studying the airworthy pie pans used by the now defunct Frisbie bakery company of Bridgeport, Conn. In 1956 he sold the patent on an improved design to the Wham-O Co. (those wonderful people who brought you the Hula-Hoop), and since then the royalties have been sailing in: about $800,000 to date...
...characters for us. Though it's true that Frenzy isn't really "about" anything (except, as with most suspense films, man against the modern world), all the main characters illustrate the notion that violent streaks and clandestine desires are natural and sometimes even make sense. The Scotland Yard inspector who sneaks his meat and eggs (to relax from his wife's humorously perverse French cooking) understands the embittered flyman who can so rage while talking to an unapproving ex-wife that he breaks a wine glass in his hand and does not feel the pain...
...acting is generally good. Jon Finch is strong and appropriately frenzied as the hero (who was a limping, balding, middle-aged fellow in the book); in a character created almost entirely by Schaffer, Alec McCowen scores as the civilized inspector who can't restrain his appetite...
...happening and to find out if this falsification of classified documents is legal and proper." Hughes suspected not, and had a copy of the letter hand-carried to Air Force Chief of Staff General John Ryan on March 8. Within 24 hours Ryan had the Air Force's inspector general, Lieut. General Louis L. Wilson Jr., on a plane to Saigon...
...planes in violation of the war's Rules of Engagement. The bombings had been reported as protective reaction strikes when, in fact, there had been no enemy firings, and Lavelle was choosing his own targets. There may well have been many more than the 147 the inspector general identified: during the four months in question, Lavelle's planes reported 1,300 protective reaction strikes...