Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three Sons (ABC) stars Fred MacMurray as a widower trying to raise his three sons, and trying, as well, to be another ratings-wealthy Bachelor Father. Like all situation comedies, this one sets its sights low and aims for modest objectives, reaching them with a professionalism as smooth as glass, blown to enclose a vacuum. In the first episode, both MacMurray and his devastatingly cute ten-year-old son were chastely chased by women of appropriate ages...
Emphasizing the moral concern of psychoanalysis, the psychiatrist attacked a modern tendency to "adjust men to an inhuman industrial society." He said that analysis must not become an instrument to smooth out any traces of individuality in men, nor must analysts continue in their role as "priests of the industrial...
...great pitchers in baseball's record book are mostly names out of a distant past, men like Christy Mathewson. Cy Young, Walter Johnson and Grover Alexander. But since 1946 a hawk-nosed lefthander with a marvelously smooth motion has been setting down National League batters with such consistency that he now must be classed with the giants of the game. Last week Milwaukee's 39-year-old Warren Spahn could look back on another superb season at an age when most stars have long since retired to sell insurance or peddle beer...
...nervously at the Russians. All four cleared 7 ft. 31n. Then Robert Shavlakadze and Valery Brumel made it over 7 ft. 1 in. to break the Olympic record by 2 in. Twice Thomas missed. The stadium lights were on when he began his third try. His form was as smooth as ever, his right leg kicked for the sky-and he seemed to be over. Then his trailing left leg swept the bar down, and the U.S. suffered its most astonishing defeat at the Rome Olympics. The eventual winner at 7 ft. 11n. was Shavlakadze (because of fewer misses...
...meter dashes, California's rangy Ray Norton, 22, will face half a dozen international stars who will need only the slightest break to beat him to the gold medals. Norton is the favorite because of his consistency under pressure and a smooth, driving stride that picks up speed as the race goes on. The long shot: West Germany's Armin Hary, 23, a Frankfurt department store clerk, who gets off the mark fast, ran the 100 meters in a world record time of 10 sec. Hary suffers from brittle nerves, and in preparation for the stress of Rome...