Word: panther
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUSSYCAT. In this screechingly funny comedy, Diana Sands is more panther than puss as a prostitute who unstuffs a stuffy clerk (Alan Alda...
Film buffs will recognize Pussycat as a distant cousin of such sophisticated international comedies as A Shot in the Dark or The Pink Panther, which are inevitably set in Paris and inevitably include Peter Sellers. These jet-set films have been getting increasingly wild; just think of how far they have come since Charade. In fact, Pussycat even pays homage to its pedigree and allows Cary Grant a walk-on part. Audrey Hepburn apparently was too modest to appear at this melee...
...story Cathedral of Learning as "The Height of Ignorance," and $2,000,000 to Duquesne. The Mellons are said to have soured on Litchfield's autocratic manner and his penchant for big-talk promotion. Litchfield announced in 1963, for example, a plan to roof over the 75-acre Panther Hollow as part of his Oakland redevelopment, and build an upside-down seven-level research and cultural center. Plans were later scaled down, and now are stalled...
...which last week got a setback in California (see SHOW BUSINESS). Networks have mixed feelings about CATV, but TV stations resent its frequent disruption of local markets with outside channels. Cumberland, Md.'s Potomac Valley TV Co. provides five Washington channels for its 18,000 subscribers, and Panther Valley TV in Lansford, Pa., a 1950 industry pioneer, picks up New York and Philadelphia as well as Scranton; TelePrompTer plans a Farmington, N. Mex., system that will use twelve microwave relays to bring in Los Angeles, 800 miles away. Cable TV's profitability also upsets the telephone companies, which...
...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 and levers and lights on the dashboard?" asks Pott. "We'll find out what they're for in time." But of course...