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Word: opuscula (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opuscula," Ian Fleming once said, "are written for warm-blooded heterosexuals in trains, airplanes and beds." But as bedtime tales for small boys, they were not quite right. So the late novelist created a magical car in stories he told his son Caspar, now 12, and some of them will be published under the title, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. The car's owner, Commander Caractacus Pott, fortyish, is rather like Commander James Bond, except that he has a family, and the car, a supercharged Paragon Panther, is a near cousin to 007's Bentley. "You see those knobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 23, 1964 | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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