Word: pad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skewered on a bed of bayonets, the manager gets a tent spike neatly through the noggin, and a Lady-Who-Gets-Sawed-in-Half gets sawed in half. In between, the usual circus acts-elephants, horses, dogs, wild animals, aerialists-plus repeated shots of the audience giggling and gasping, pad out the film to the conventional 90 minutes...
Billy was the darling of the denizens of the crash pad at Provo House, a tarnished brick relic of bygone opulence hard by Denver's Capitol Hill area. Provo House, named for a group of Dutch student rowdies by a Californian who calls himself "The Strider," proffered free mattresses and sometimes free food to hippie drifters, dropouts and runaways. The flower children lavished their love on Billy, making sure that the cheerful blond two-year-old always got a generous portion of their meager meals. Only when forced to take a bath would Billy blow his cool...
...Viet Nam. This kind of end run is hardly new to the Communists, who have often used Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutral kingdom as a gateway and a sanctuary. But the rising intensity of the war is causing them to use Cambodia more and more as a launching pad and supply depot...
...Cape Kennedy's launch pad 39A last week, the cause of all the commotion, America's mighty Saturn 5, spewed brilliant flames and rose majestically on a flight that revitalized the lagging Apollo program and raised hopes that the U.S. may yet land men on the moon before 1970. Generating 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust and one of the loudest sounds ever produced by man,* the first-stage engines lifted the 3,000-ton, 363-foot-high vehicle to an altitude of 38 miles and a speed of 6,100 m.p.h. only 21 minutes after liftoff. During...
WASHINGTON'S scruffy Ambassador Theater, normally a pad for psychedelic frolics, was the scene of an unscheduled scatological solo last week in support of the peace demonstrations. Its anti-star was Author Norman Mailer, who proved even less prepared to explain Why Are We in Viet Nam? than his current novel bearing that title...