Word: kites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National Water Ski Kite-Flying championships in Austin, Texas, share the bill with the Charlotte, N.C., National "400" Stock Car championships...
Patna's police also spent one night cordoning off an area below a mysterious, wavering filament in the sky that they identified as a "rocket fuse." At dawn, they discovered someone had tied his paper kite to a pole, and the "fuse" was merely its fluttering string...
Boats Without Brine. Virtually every boat manufacturer has had the same experience. C. P. Leek & Sons Inc., a New Jersey company that built clippers 40 years before Ben Franklin flew his first kite, began making luxury items standard equipment on their Pacemaker yacht five years ago, has seen sales soar from $1,000,000 to $14 million. Its largest model, a 53-ft. motor yacht, offers all the amenities found on Chris Crafts, plus built-in television, bathtub, washer-dryer combination and ironing board, symbols of domesticity that would wrinkle the brow of any old salt...
...political hay wagon is towards the North Harvard renewal site. And the from the tiny kite-shaped hardly a thousand feet on longest side, may prove well the pickings for certain...
Bruce Kornbluth's Sergeant Kite is a masterpiece of Villainy; his masquerades as a lady fortune-teller and as a preacher are splendidly done. K. Lype O'Dell's Balance and David Meneghal's Brazen are fine comic parts. In a moment of inspiration, Chapman Laurence Senetlick in the relatively minor role of Simpkins, and Senelick's sniggering, swaggering portrayal of the only poor man who lines up with the bourgeoisie (he's Justice Balance butler) justifies him. Simpkins' description of Bunker Hill is one of the highlights of the evening...