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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only more risqué than in years past, it also has raised the Smothers brothers' fallen torch by tackling such heavies as the U.S. military establishment, the ultraright wing, Viet Nam, marriage, homosexuality and organized religion. But what is to become of Laugh-In once the old gang is gone? Newcomers are already being broken in, including a dumb redhead named Pamela Rodgers and an energetic Negro named Teresa Graves. And there's always Rowan and Martin (remember them?). But the magic of their show has always been fragile at best. The old legerdemain...
...slightly French-fried. It is the tendrils, insists Stylist Michael of the Michael-John salon, that make the look work. "You have to have softness-a few strands at the sides like those Degas ladies, or you get an effect that is either too Japanese or too much old schoolteacher...
Frightfully Interesting. Poet John Betjeman, for example, paid tribute to his stuffed, 60-year-old ursine friend "Archibald Ormsby-Gore" in his work Summoned by Bells ("Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world/When I turned to Archibald, my safe old bear"). The late Donald Campbell set new speed records with his "Mr. Woppit" along for the ride, and Mountain Climber Walter Bonnati got through one low point on his solitary trek up the Matterhorn's north slopes by confessing his "sins" to Zissi, a tiny Teddy in his knapsack. Princess Alexandra of Kent became almost inconsolable when...
Triumphant Symbol. Teddy bears are precisely 67 years old. The name was attached to a new line of stuffed bruins manufactured by the forerunner of the Ideal Toy Corp. and by Germany's Steiff Co. after President Theodore Roosevelt, on an expedition to Mississippi in 1902, refused to shoot a bear cub. Washington Star Cartoonist Clifford Berryman instantly made the cub a symbol for Roosevelt, and the country went for the notion lock, stock, and bear jokes. (If T.R. is President when he is fully dressed, went one knee-slapper, what is he with his clothes off? Answer: Teddy...
...reason, of course, was the six-week-old strike against G.E. Whether the boycott will force the company to budge remains to be seen. Union boycotts generally have been ineffective. Indeed, at the scheduled start of the G.E. boycott on the day after Thanksgiving, no pickets showed up in major cities, though the unions promise that there will be many this week. Its determination is a sign of the growing bitterness in U.S. labor relations. Union men, whose pay raises in the past few years have barely kept pace with price boosts, increasingly feel that corporations and the Government...