Word: pad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smash was perfected in 53 major operations-more than one a week-that ranged from the la Drang Valley ("the Valley of Death," as the division remembers it) to the Bong Son Plains, hard by the South China Sea. Its 430 choppers, flying from a carefully cropped launch pad outside An Khe, have carried men and whole batteries of snub-nosed 105s and 155s into places no one would have imagined. The Air Cav's noisy "gunships" have developed to a fine art the use of their rocket artillery in close support of the heliborne troops. As a result...
...Pad (And How to Use It). The title swings like a rusty tailpipe, but stay cool. Ross Hunter, the Hollywood production genius who gave the world Tammy and a yock-pile of fill'ems starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day, has actually produced an intelligent picture at last. Based on the first half of The Private Ear-The Public Eye, a 1963 Broadway hit by Britain's Peter Shaffer, The Pad is laid out as a parable of friendship. Ted (James Farentino), who considers himself God's gift to the working girl, is a crude dude with...
...from the edge of the cliff. Big-hearted Ted, of course, gives the poor kid some useful advice ("Put two cigarettes between your lips, light them and give one to her -very sexy, women love it") and then kindly offers to come over to Bob's pad on the big night and whip up one of those "seductive suppers from Playboy...
...doctors, teachers, engineers, secretaries and salesmen. Not only must applicants fight their way up through South Bay's long waiting list but, once in, they simply do not want to leave-even though they must pay rents from $125 for an efficiency to $260 for a two-bedroom pad. These rates are from $50 to $100 higher than those in comparable apartment houses, which are suffering an average vacancy rate of 15%, but South Bay is full up and turning away about 25 new applicants a week...
...spoofing Get Smart! When a top CIA man named Hans V. Tofte advertised his Washington basement apartment for rent, another CIA man named Kenneth Slocum answered the ad and then grimly snitched that he had spied classified documents lying around Tofte's pad. In turn, Tofte grimly complained at the office that he had just been doing some homework on the papers-and then mentioned that $19,000 worth of his wife's jewelry had vanished after Slocum's visit...