Word: kits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several disguises per show in order to sanitize the notorious district of the title. Doug McClure plays a gambling-house owner, amusingly exasperated by his friend's slippery ways. The show is exuberantly staged and every present or former owner of a mail-order fool-your-friends makeup kit ought to enjoy...
...profit motive was plentifully in evidence at Conrad Hilton convention headquarters, where hucksters did a brisk business in Star Trek artifacts from space suit emblems to books (Bantam and Ballantine together have printed more than 6 million Star Trek paperbacks) to a $5 kit containing a dozen scale blueprints of the Enterprise. There were photographs for sale of Skipper Kirk, played by William Shatner, and First Officer Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), a pointy-eared half human, half Vulcanite who has become a cult unto himself. Many of the new Spock generation attending the convention wore plastic ears like their hero...
...head. The time will come when you won't even be allowed a stub of pencil and the back of an envelope." There is perhaps too much doomsday in that advice, but anyone watching the world now may want to think hypothetically of stashing away in his survival kit, along with the dried foods and bottled water, a copy of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary...
...apparently that's how a lot of people are taking it. WRKO radio is advertising a name-that-song contest which offers the grand prize of a shark hunt; a trip to Martha's Vineyard where the movie was filmed, two tickets to Jaws and a "shark repellent kit"--a baseball bat. Some...
...times, the Soviets carried the space gamesmansinp a mite too far for NASA's taste. For example, the fat, 204-page press kit released by the Russians contained some surprises for U.S. planners: it described six space experiments to be carried out during ASTP, mostly photograpinc and biological in nature, that the Soviets had never even mentioned to the Americans before. The U.S. had faithfully advised their Soviet counterparts of all 21 planned American experiments months in advance. More embarrassing to NASA, the Soviets casually let it be known only two weeks ago that they probably would keep...