Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most topical digs are reserved for a cocktail-party sequence, featuring Laugh-In's regular cast of kooks, and a segment with hoked-up newscasts. On last week's show, for example, Rowan reported this bulletin of the future: "Vatican, 1988. The church today finally approved the use of the Pill. The announcement was made by Pope Le Roy . . . Junior. His father was not available for comment. His mother, the former Sister Mary Catherine reached at Gluck's Hillside in the Catskills, would only say, 'We like to think of the Pill as St. Joseph Aspirin...
...secretary in a summer-stock production of Auntie Mame. A graduate of 20 cabaret revues, she excels at song-and-dance numbers but is guaranteed to break it up when, as Gladys, she confides: "I never go out with soccer players. I hear they're not allowed to use their...
...cameo tapings are made with an eye for economy as well as variety. The average Laugh-In show costs $170,000 to produce. To save money, each cameo guest is given perhaps dozens of one-liners to recite. Those gags that are not used on one show are preserved on tape, along with an assortment of skits and acts, for use in future shows; they are numbered and filed in a "joke bank" under such headings as "Joke Wall" or "Cocktail Party...
Birthday of an Amendment. Despite the uncertainty of the future, Justices Warren, Fortas and William Brennan took time last week to celebrate the past. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the 14th Amendment, and at a centennial commemoration sponsored by N.Y.U. Law School, all three defended the use of the amendment's "due process clause" to strike down state laws that discriminate against Negroes or deny federally guaranteed rights. Brennan called the 14th "the prime tool by which we as citizens are striving to shape a society which truly champions the dignity and worth of the individual." Perhaps...
...most important is an appeal from James Oestereich, who was reclassified from 4D (divinity student) to 1A by his draft board last year after he turned his draft card in to the Justice Department. At least 18 other suits that question the Selective Service System's power to use the draft as punishment for antiwar activities are currently pending in federal courts. Also under attack this year are capital-punishment laws, a federal.law requiring marijuana dealers to register with the Government and an Arkansas "monkey" law that forbids the teaching of evolution in the schools of that state...