Word: safes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Television, the disseminator of most current American comedy, has abdicated originality in favor of the safe and same. As recently as ten years ago, such comedians as Sid Caesar and Ernie Kovacs were savagely satirizing everything from fatherhood to French movies. Today on TV, comedy is rarely allowed to lumber into view unless preceded by its keeper-situation. Perhaps, too, it was inevitable that once man found a way to can the stuff of life he would some day find a way to can the stuff of the soul-laughter. Canned laughter is everywhere; TV has become a robot talking...
There is obviously no such thing as a safe bobsled run, but there are varying degrees of danger. Nobody has ever been killed on Austria's Igls run, and it was a shock around the famed Ronco course at Cortina, Italy, when Germany's Anton Pensberger crashed to his death during last month's world championships. But the Mount Van Hoevenberg run at Lake Placid, N.Y., is another story. With its 16 low-banked curves, abnormally wide straightaways (which leave all the more room for error) and extra-high speeds (up to 90 m.p.h.), it has long...
DeGuglielmo, flanked by hospital construction officials, called his request absolutely safe. He said that the City could invest at a higher rate any money borrowed but not needed for construction...
...Britain did not interfere. Even at that, though, the Israelis seem pretty safe. As one West German rocketeer in Egypt mourns: "Our guidance systems are so unreliable that if we were to aim for Tel Aviv, it's an even bet that we'd hit Beirut...
...Safe Distance. The company's founder and chairman, Paul Ricard, 56, is a flamboyant fellow who revels in the title "the Aperitif King of France." The son of a Marseille wine merchant, Ricard once had notions of being an artist; his practical father insisted, however, that he learn to earn a living first. Ricard turned from palette to pastis making, took over the family bathroom as his laboratory and distillery, added licorice to the standard pastis recipe to improve (or maybe to kill) the usual flavor. Perhaps an even better salesman than distiller, he drummed up a thriving trade...