Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Son of Flubber. It's that man again-Neddie the Nut, that is. Remember him? In The Absent Minded Professor, the nuttiest science-fiction farce of recent years, Neddie (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber. In Professor the professor put flubber in a flivver and flew...
As Army Vice Chief of Staff, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Chairman of the Burma Oil Co., Aung Gyi was Ne Win's No. 2 man and heir apparent. The son of a well-to-do Chinese textile merchant and a Burmese woman, he proved himself a canny...
Back in the late 1950s, there was hardly a blueprint around that did not include specifications for a large, shallow hole to be sunk into the living-room floor. That, as the architect told it, was the conversation pit. Its ostensible purpose: to create, in the vast tundra of the...
Well, that's one way to give the customers a kick. But there are others, and Walt Disney exploits almost all of them in this insuperably sappy sequel to The Absent Minded Professor. Remember him? His name is Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) and he teaches chemistry at Medfield...
The first of these Mavericks was another Samuel, one of the great cattlemen of the nineteenth century who, leaving his cattle unbranded, made "maverick" a common as well as a proper noun. His grandson Maury Maverick was a controversial Texas Congressman and reform-minded mayor of San Antonio; Maury Maverick...