Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encourage concierges, waiters, taxi drivers and the like, each tourist will receive a "carnet de cheques-sourire" (checkbook of smiles), with tickets that he can tear out and distribute (along with his tip) as a reward for especially cheerful service. At the end of the season, 50 beaming Frenchmen with the largest number of smiles will win a brand-new car, a free vacation to Tahiti or the West Indies, or another prize. Will it work? One skeptical tourist official sighs, "Parisians are born complainers-they don't even like each other, not to mention tourists." And he shrugs...
...surrounded by statuary from his period, Psamtik's minister has regained his look of permanence. A closed form in lustrous alabaster, his presence is pounded out of stone with a mallet as if hacked from timelessness by human persistence. The pose may be stiff, but the archaic smile on the ancient Egyptian's lips reflects an implicit belief that he has found a house for his soul and that his eyes gaze toward eternity. Yet without patient scholarship, he would only have added to the historic rubble of mankind...
...Jack figures he's got the problem licked. He's keeping himself at a practically svelte 208 Ibs. nowadays, and hardly anybody calls him "Baby Beef" any more. He has even learned to smile - which, in Jack's case, is not as easy as it sounds. "For some reason," he explains, "it's hard to make a big smile on my face. Other people just move their lips and they've got the nicest, biggest smile. I have to work...
...Nicklaus' new smile became almost a fixture. The gallery knew a winner when it saw one: on the last day, an admiring crowd of 25,000 turned out to trail Jack around the course. Tied with Player for second place at eight under par, Arnie Palmer buttonholed Tournament Director Clifford Roberts. "Mr. Roberts," he cracked, "how about letting Gary and me double our scores so we can have a playoff with Jack?" Even that wouldn't have been enough. Sporting a floppy white hat for which he had to shell out $6.50 at the pro shop ("it would...
Quick, Before It Melts explores the comic possibilities of sex in Antarctica and coaxes forth little more than a frozen smile. Against rear-projection views of a place that resembles McMurdo Sound, Director Delbert Mann belabors all the hoariest tricks of his trade. Melts has crazy scientists, sex-starved Navymen, a penguin that delivers radiograms, a seal given to voyeurism, and quips that must have been packed away since Admiral Byrd first visited the place. "We're having a heat wave-darned near up to zero...