Word: orientator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Five-four-three-two-one." Announcer Hugh Downs did the Canaveral countdown, then launched his rocket: "Here's Jack!" Into public view again loomed Jack Paar, returning to his bereft nighttime audience after his headline-making walkout (TIME, Feb. 22). Home from three weeks in the wise old Orient, he was full of sweetness and contrition. He gave NBC another chance, despite its censorship of the now celebrated W.C. joke, and he admitted that his tantrum had been childish and emotional. "I don't really need enemies," he said, "when I have me." Then he went right after...
...locale is that intrigue-ridden region that the Orient Express never quite reached-the Orient. As he is so fond of doing, British Author Ambler begins with a fragile seed of evil: a cache of arms established in Malaya by Communist terrorists after World War II. The terrorists are killed in an ambush, and the arms dump is lost. But a thoughtful Indian plantation clerk deduces that it must exist, and to satisfy his curiosity begins to search for it. Months later the clerk finds the weapons, still unrusted, and he feels that it would be a pity to turn...
...plastic bottle-cap salesman just home from the Orient was telling an odd tale in Manhattan last week. He had been having an expense-account special (bird's-nest soup, aromatic chicken) at Mang Wing-tei's in Hong Kong, when in came "this big, storklike American wearing a black and blue mandarin's costume. He said he was celebrating the Year of the Rat. Irving Hoffman was his name...
...train continued creeping forward for what seemed an age. The change was complete. Three miles back, every person had been Western and every sign had been in Russian. Now everyone was Oriental and there was not a sign in any language but Chinese. We had entered the Orient as one jumps off a dock into...
...paper opposed Japan's growing sphere of influence so vehemently that he was forced to leave Shanghai. Then the Japa nese took over the city. But American International found new fields to conquer in Latin America, eventually built a larger business there than it ever had in the Orient...