Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question is, should a gentleman lick the wasp-stung buttock of a lady in distress? Please Don't Walk Around in the Nudel fails to provide an adequate answer, but it does pose the problem in a delightful fashion...
...Carefulness. With everyone mindful of the troublemaking potential of Castro's Communist Cuba, the security arrangements were indeed remarkable. Some 50 U.S. Secret Service men were there; a U.S. Army company moved in from the Canal Zone; the carrier Wasp, its jet fighters just three minutes away, cruised offshore. Some of the food for Kennedy's private meals was flown into San Jose from the Wasp. Preparatory to it all, the U.S. had requested and received from Costa Rica the right to screen all visa requests for entry into the little country. Among those who applied and were...
...plastic bombs, too, although it's a wasp that Kendra Stearns sits on in Please Don't Walk around like that. Since a wasp-sting can be dangerous unless it is licked, Miss Stearns, playing the wife of an ambitious politician, asks this little service of him. When he refuses, she asks it of a political opponent, a servant, and finally a newspaper reporter who obliges. The look on the relieved heroine's face as the sting is drawn out provides a fitting climax for this very amusing scene...
...shop there in 1955. Madison Avenue advertising agencies now study Saul Bass film credits in search of new techniques for TV commercials. At 41, Bass is easily the highest-priced man in his field. He is also the creator of the new color-drop Kleenex box and the new, wasp-waisted Wesson Oil bottle. He never repeats him self. "If you don't risk everything every time out." he says, "your creative reservoir goes dry, and ultimately you fail...
...SPACE NEEDLE, being constructed as the fair's thematic tower. To stand 600 ft. high, it will be a graceful, wasp-waisted minaret, supported by six steel legs and topped by a four-story disk and a 40-ft. natural-gas torch. Within the slowly turning disk (one revolution an hour) will be a restaurant, an observation deck and a lounge where fairgoers will see a panorama of Mount Rainier, the Cascade Mountains, Puget Sound, the Olympic mountains and the city...