Word: saucer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Mary Tyler Moore's mill. As might be expected, the most sophisticated, All's Fair, is a Lear production for CBS. The story about a conservative Washington columnist in his late 40s, played by Richard Crenna, and his affair with a young, radical chic photographer, gives saucer-eyed Bernadette Peters a long-overdue opportunity to close in on an identifiable personality. But All's Fair is not for all viewers. In the damning words of one West Coast handicapper: "It's a thinking man's show...
...nearly everyone recalls, while President Dwight David Eisenhower was putting on the White House lawn, reported flying-saucer sightings became almost as common as Studebakers. Dozens of books and articles were generated by the UFO phenomenon. A chosen few earthlings even claimed contact with extraterrestrials. Descriptions varied, from garden-variety little green men to simple aliens who resembled Italians dressed like Greyhound bus drivers. Reactions to UFOs usually depended on one's interests, angst and reflexes. While the jittery Air Force launched a top-secret investigation to prove whether or not the saucers were real, Psychoanalyst Carl Jung groped...
...while his guests got a $6 vintage. Ron Ziegler, Nixon's beleaguered press aide, had special drinking habits too: he would not take his White House cocktails unless the glass bore the presidential emblem. He even wanted his coffee served in a cream-colored Lenox china cup and saucer bearing the presidential seal, identical to the cups Nixon used...
...summer in admissions of teen-agers with broken or fractured limbs, particularly "skateboard elbow," caused by landing funny-bone-first. To cut down the carnage rate, Long Beach, San Diego and other communities have banned skateboarding in the streets and parks; Hollywood Hills' celebrated "Toilet Bowl," a vast, saucer-like storm drain that attracts thousands of skateboard stunters each week, has been modified with antispeed bumps to slow the action; some San Diego high schools are planning special skateboard safety classes. But even star boarders wind up in splints. SkateBoarder Editor Bolster broke both his wrists this year...
...dome on the 60,000-seat, $60 million King County Stadium next year "in time for the baseball season"-even though Seattle does not as yet have a dome-town baseball team. The most controversial of all is the 27-story-high Superdome, which resembles a giant flying saucer set down on 52 acres of downtown New Orleans. Since 1966, when construction was approved by the Louisiana legislature, the cost of the dome has ballooned from $35 million to $163 million-about 15 times the price of Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase...