Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bringing any sort of big airliner down to a gentle-or safe-landing is a considerable stunt. But heavy, fast, steeply sinking jet planes have made the proposition even trickier. Their pilots cannot make a so-so approach and depend on last-minute power adjustments to keep them from overshooting or undershooting the runway. They must fly "by the numbers"-at precise letdown speeds, with their wing flaps set precisely right and their noses at the correct angle. Once a 150-ton jet is committed to land, it must follow a very narrow "slot of forgiveness," never deviating appreciably...
...elaborately arranged stunt-motor carefully removed from the car, movie camera concealed to catch the mechanic's panicky reaction-was typical of Candid Camera, probably the longest-running practical joke in history. For 13 years, the program (known as Candid Microphone in radio days) has kicked about on the networks, intermittently joined the Jack Paar, Steve Allen, and Garry Moore TV shows. This season. Candid Cameraman Allen Funt is back on the air (CBS) with a new half-hour show that features Ar thur Godfrey and Singer Dorothy Collins (the girl in the motorless car) as fellow cards, plus...
Besides Lowe, who pulled the rather incredible stunt of winning the 3-mile and the 3000-meter steeplechase within 20 minutes of each other at last spring's ICIA meet, Brown will be depending on three sophomores--Tom Gunselman, Bill Ibby, and John Jones...
...raising the ante to a whole evening's entertainment, the pair also raise a question or two about this or that brand of it. They are so talented that the stunt and show-off side of their performance-letting the audience call the tune or enacting Dostoevsky in ten seconds-seems a mistake. At times, too, there is conflict between their manner, which is essentially a freewheeling one, and their matter, which demands the foreplanning of the revue sketch or blackout. Their eye is as deadly keen as their tongue can be brilliantly sharp; but when they impersonate, when...
...general sales manager of the Masonite Corp. (Australia) Ltd., an affiliate of the U.S. company, saw Harris wobbling his oil painting on a TV show, told his father about the "man making a whooping sound with a piece of Masonite." The Masonite people enlisted Harris in a promotion stunt, turned out 200 boards as giveaways. "We never dreamed what a mad flap was in store for us," says Sales Promotion Manager Bob Jones. Demand was so great that the company began selling the boards, had to hire extra hands for the increased production. In all, more than 55,000 boards...