Word: lam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major targets remain intact. U.S. policy has so far strictly proscribed the bombing of Haiphong harbor, the Red River dikes, and the government's civilian and military headquarters in Hanoi. Of the permissible targets, only four major ones are still untouched: the three airfields of Phuc Yen, Gia Lam and Cat Bi, and the large Red River Bridge feeding into downtown Hanoi...
...selection of the Tonight guests. The pay is only $320, but the pool is limitless, explains Tony Randall, because the show "is plugsville." Bob Hope, for example, came on recently, chatted a bit, and then showed a 21-minute clip from his latest film, Eight on the Lam. At Tonight's going commercial rates, that air time would have cost United Artists $40,000. The second attraction to the stars, says Actress Susan Oliver, is that "when you play a part onstage or in a film or TV, you can't appear as the person...
Eight on the Lam offers Bob Hope the ultimate insult: it assumes that he needs comic relief. As a meekling bank teller, Bob finds himself unjustly accused of rifling the tills and takes to the hills with his seven momless moppets and their inevitable mongrel. A fair enough premise for a one-man vehicle, but Hope is almost lost in a cast of characters that includes a slopstick baby sitter (Phyllis Diller) and her detective boy friend (Jonathan Winters), mouthing a script that contains relentless japes about little boys' bladders and big girls' figures...
Before another Lam is led to slaughter, it might be wise for Bob Hope to try another production firm. This-the 52nd film he has starred in-was churned out by Hope Enterprises, a family affair. For comedians, it's sometimes better to do business with strangers...
After nine days off the air and on the lam, Johnny Carson came home to NBC. All was forgiven. Johnny was for givin' NBC the benefit of his presence if NBC was for givin' him the present of their benefits-that is, a lot more cash and a little more say-so over who runs the Johnny Carson show Tonight...