Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a month in Kharkov, the U.S. exhibit, which is being transported in a special train provided by the Kremlin, will pack up its tool sets and head to the Lower Don city of Rostov and thence to Erevan, capital of Soviet Armenia. Inaugurating the display in Kharkov, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Foy D. Kohler noted that "at a time when political relations between our governments are not as good as they might be," such exhibits "help create a climate of understanding and good will between our two peoples" that "cannot but facilitate the search for solutions to political problems...
When the 11:01 a.m. train from Manhattan pulled into Southampton-still a semi-exclusive summer enclave on the eastern tip of Long Island-the scene that greeted the passengers was not to be believed. Rumbling and banging down the street came a wave of empty kerosene drums propelled by perfectly straight-faced adults; a horde of children were bouncing large weather balloons on their heads. In the midst of the turmoil were two homemade Hovercraft, a foot above the ground, one ridden by a curvaceous brunette billed as "Liquid Hips," the other by a menacing figure in black plastic...
...think they've flipped their lids," said a bystander. The reaction from the train was stronger. "Beatniks," snorted one grande dame as she pushed her way toward her chauffeur-driven limousine. "It's certainly not Southampton," sniffed another. What was happening was a Happening-a combination of artists' ball, carnival, charade, and a Dadaesque version of the games some people play. The Neutron Kid, glowering through his full beard and dark glasses, was none other than Allan Kaprow, 38, the artist who seven years ago gave Happenings their name...
While he is computerized at work, Thomson leads a quietly unprogrammed life outside his office. He and Wife Dorothy, whom he married in 1927 after a courtship that began when a mutual friend introduced them on a commuter train, live in a shyly elegant ranch house in Westfield, N.J., an hour's trip by train and ferryboat from Wall Street. Thomson, in Merrill Lynch fashion, is an eager train-and evening-out bridge player; though he has a bent-armed swing, he plays golf in the low 80s, has certificates to prove that he has thrice scored holes...
...Scenarists Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove (who wrote the 1962 Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) dress hip gags in a graceful English manner, and their wayward humor brightens train wrecks, horse-and-buggy chase scenes and a hearse-to-hearse search for missing bodies. Among the grimly gay daguerrotypes at hand are Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as a pair of craven city cousins. Peter Sellers, as a sawbones who specializes in questionable cases, looks like a depraved caricature of Benjamin Franklin, while Wilfrid Lawson all but steals the show as a loyal...