Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youthful chairman of Motorola, Inc. acknowledges stem-winding introductions with a stock joke: "The most important reason for my rapid rise is that my dad owned the joint." At Motorola, the success of Robert W. Galvin is no joke. When he took over from his father Paul, the company's crusty, autocratic founder, Motorola had long been largely a one-man, one-product corporation. Galvin might have rested on his father's laurels, but he elected to be his own man. In the five years since his father's death, Bob, now 41, has made Motorola...
...stories) is slighter and shorter, but the target is still recognizable. The concentration camps are no longer in evidence, but the Stalinist greasy-collared thugs have only turned into white-collar bureaucrats: bald, corpulent, obtuse paper shufflers. Their opponents are ardent provincial youths who scoff at party propaganda and joke about the Virgin Lands program-but who eagerly take direct action, in the old "Hero of Labor" tradition, to build themselves a new school. Just as they are fitting the final doorknob, word comes that the party plans to take over the new building to house a chemical-research institute...
...scholar's memory was legendary. He could recite the names of nearly all graduates of Harvard Law School and a standard joke held that if a student over forgot his locke number he had only to ask Dean Pound...
...attempt was made on Ben Bella's life. So far, Ben Bella has maintained control through his ingenuity in sowing discord among his foes and by frightening the masses with the prospect of civil war if he is overthrown. The situation is summed up by a wry Western joke heard in the cafes: "Algeria is a developed country that is moving toward underdevelopment...
Bedtime Story is a witless, one-joke soporific concocted by a pair of usually wide-awake Hollywood pitchmen. This time out, Producer-Writer Stanley Shapiro (Lover Come Back, That Touch of Mink) and Co-Author Paul Henning have pitched a Mickey to the comic muse. Story unfolds against rear-projection views of the Riviera, where a bogus Highness (David Niven) and an ex-U.S. Army corporal (Marlon Brando) pool their resources to squeeze a living out of wealthy women such as Dody Goodman, an Omaha madcap just born to be trimmed. The thieves fall out, of course, when they...