Word: tac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are too many of them." says James (The Wonderful 0) Thurber. "The trouble is, everyone thinks he can write a children's book." Picture books range from the sophisticated cutouts of Italy's Bruno Munari in Tic, Tac and Toe to the bold line drawings of Kurt Wiese for Claire Huchet Bishop's classic The Five Chinese Brothers; nature shines in Roger Duvoisin's The House of Four Seasons and James Fisher's The Wonderful World of the Sea; the infancy of the human race lies in Ella Young's evocation of Gaelic...
Dispersal: SAC's and TAC's bases are overconcentrated, present big targets to Soviet air and missile power. Item: SAC's March AFB at Riverside, Calif, has 90 6-475 and 40 KC-97 tankers, and only one usable runway to get them all into the air come an emergency. The USAF needs six more bases right now, another 100 as soon as Tommy White can get them...
...that marries couples on the air and presents them with gifts, a reception and honeymoon. Arthur Murray Party, a perennial replacement, has already bounced cheerily on screen in full color, and will move into half of Robert Montgomery's Monday place next month. Although such giveaways as Tic Tac Dough and The Price Is Right trudge on in the daytime, NBC will cancel Home, its 3½-year-old, hour-long "service" show, in August. NBC is also mercifully scrapping the Tonight format and reverting to the freewheeling foolishness of the old Ernie Kovacs-Steve Allen days, with slouchy...
...doubtful if their number includes Hollywood Producer Joe Mankiewicz. On location in South Viet Nam to film the Greene novel, his concern was simply to get a good shot of the Holy See at festival time. Cao Dai's Pope Pham Cong Tac was in Cambodian exile when Mankiewicz arrived, having deemed it wise to flee the country after some trouble with the government last year concerning his Vestal Virgins, but Vice Pope Bao The was more than glad to oblige...
...well-armed with pith helmets, salt tablets and quinine pills, Mankiewicz journeyed to Tayninh. Meanwhile, prompted to some extent by the wishful thinking of the exile himself, word had spread among the Cao Dai faithful that Hollywood magic had somehow arranged for the return to Tayninh of Pope Tac...