Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heel-about a modern Achilles, of course, set in a Florida fishing village (Oct. 21). Man on Ice confronts an anthropologist with a Neanderthal in a cave. Director John Gerstad (The Seven Year Itch) has yet to pick an actor for either role, but the latter should be a snap (February). One half-cast comedy is The Owl and the Pussycat, by Wilton Manhoff. The pussycat goes in for acting, modeling and prostitution. A snoopy neighbor reports her to the police. Pussycat seeks the neighbor out and seduces him. Kim Stanley is the pussycat. They're still looking...
...steelmakers complain of inroads by the Western Europeans; the French snap crossly at the Belgians; the Germans lash out at the British, the French, the Belgians and the Swedes; and no one, of course, has a kind word for Japan's low-cost producers. Last week, alarmed that undercutting foreigners have grabbed more than 21% of the German steel market, German steelmen vowed to risk a loss to meet the price of any cut-rate competitor...
...most vexing problem in any museum. Sert & Co., after long thought, have built quarter-cylinder "traps" that concentrate light the way a radar antenna gathers in radio waves. The effect is to eliminate streaks and reflections. To thwart "artnaping," that ever-popular Riviera crime, alarms flash and doors snap shut like those in a sub marine if any art object is touched...
...only 2,298 inspectors to handle 158 million people at U.S. ports of entry. Congress refused to authorize any more, has also nixed proposals for 1) a corps of pretty hostesses to aid incoming passengers, 2) a Customs Academy, which would eventually turn out inspectors so expert in snap judgment that they could simply glance at a woman's face and know whether her spiked heels were full of contraband. As it is, the simplified "oral declarations" remain a pie-in-the-sky practice except for air arrivals at Miami and Idlewild. As for New York's outmoded...
Istel has imported improvements. The jolt of the opening chute is eliminated by the use of a German invention, a sleeve that slowly deploys the inflating canopy instead of letting it snap open with a jerk. Open gores, or pie-shaped sections cut out of the canopy, developed by the British and Russians, permit the parachutist to steer by tugging on the wooden toggles attached to the risers. He insists that for the first five jumps the chutes be opened automatically by a static line attached to the aircraft. After that, the adventurous jumper can essay the free fall...