Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other principal target is a huge, walk-through tableau titled Roxy's, a 1961 re-creation of a 1943 wartime brothel in Las Vegas. One of the girls, Five Dollar Billie, is a mannequin with a virtuous face but a ravaged body (symbolized by a stuffed squirrel climbing out of her breast) lying on a sewing-machine table. Like a pathetic machine, she Yo-Yos pelvically if a spectator peddles the foot treadle. Adding a sardonic note is a call-to-arms portrait of General MacArthur and a sergeant's jacket, bedecked with a good-conduct medal...
...target of G.M.'s sleuthing was Ralph Nader, 32, a Harvard Law School graduate who last year authored a book called Unsafe at Any Speed, which devoted a chapter to telling about the dangers of driving a 1960-63 model of Chevrolet's Corvair. Nader charged Corvair with sloppy-and therefore presumably unsafe-engineering in its rear suspension system...
Shot by a camera through the spacecraft's window, the movie films first showed the Agena target vehicle sailing serenely through space (see opposite page) as the Gemini maneuvered carefully around it in a masterly exhibition of spacecraft control. Pictures of the docking process (see succeeding pages) reflected Gemini's cautious approach and clearly showed the green lights on the Agena's instrument panel signaling that all was well. Despite their silence, the pictures seemed to give the sound of a solid, satisfactory thump as the two vehicles mated firmly in space...
...word spoken, Newman's game, rank and destination are established beyond doubt. He is hellbent for Bogart country, that raw, rich Big Sleep milieu; and this Warner Brothers revival of a grand old tradition gets him there in style. Based on Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target, and accelerated at a slick '60s pace by Director Jack Smight, Harper gives Newman his feistiest role since...
University officials had originally scheduled an early Fall target date for the project's completion...