Word: spinner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sofa setup that Dave Garroway, Steve Allen and Jack Paar popularized years ago. As Griffin sees it, "With three of us in there every week night, it will be a game of 'Pick Your Host.' " Or more likely, "Pick Your Guest." During premiere week, a dial spinner could have tuned in Carson confronting Groucho Marx, Bill Cosby, Romy Schneider, Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, and Rowan and Martin. Bishop trotted out such West Coast Establishmentarians as Ruth Gordon, George Burns, Tony Bennett, Milton Berle, Eddie Fisher, Rick (né Ricky) Nelson and Ed Ames. Griffin went for such familiar...
Storing Shockers. Darmstadt's latest currents are electronic, with fiercely earnest Electronic Composer Stockhausen (TIME, Feb. 10) as chief knob spinner...
...Everything) that have sold 32 million copies around the world. His fans will know just what ingredients to expect in his newest novel: busy, well populated pages, a swift and intricate plot, strong characters, believable dialogue, a surfeit of sex and violence. The late Ian Fleming, no mean tale spinner himself, said, "I automatically buy every John D. MacDonald as it comes...
...known. If China's young no longer needed education, neither did any working adult need expertise: for both, the contemplation of Mao's teachings was enough. Explorers lost in the Gobi Desert threw away their compasses and were led out by Mao-think. A North China girl spinner started out tending 100 spindles at a time but, after studying Mao's works, was soon handling 1,600 with ease. Top-quality steel was forthcoming from an out-of-date converter once the operator began "applying the philosophical concepts expounded in Mao Tse-tung's writings...
...appropriated from an early Willys model, it retains the familiar boxy design, but otherwise is a far cry from the vintage Jeep. Roadster, pickup truck and station-wagon versions (price: $2,300 to $4,000) are available, but the series' mainstay is a convertible featuring bucket seats, chrome spinner wheels, continental spare tire, and regular windows instead of isinglass curtains-plus such options as air conditioning, automatic transmission and power brakes...