Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIZARD OF OZ (CBS, 7-9 p.m.). Seventh annual broadcast of the film classic starring Judy Garland, with Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West...
...know the names and styles of the players they are going to see, for the program has become a modern institution and a red-letter event in the calendar of childhood. It is the Oz Bowl game, CBS's annual telecast of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard...
...fair to them, The Wizard of Oz really is a horror story, with this grackle-voiced, green-skinned, chin-warted apparition hurling fire from rooftops, skywriting ominously with a flaming broom, or saying: "Now, my beauties, something with poison in it. Heh! Heh! Heh!" Hearing that, one child remembered hopefully, if a bit inexactly, that "last year Dorothy and the Wizard poured hot water on her and she melted." The Wicked Witch will melt again this year, but not from the children's memory. Into bed they will crawl singing "Ding, dong, the Witch is dead," only to stop...
...Ghost and his sprawling stabile Guillotine for Eight met like stalactite and stalagmite in the great rotunda of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum (see opposite page). Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture never had better tenants: a 361-piece retrospective that could equally well establish Calder as a wizard of the wind, a Wright Brothers' Rodin, or the greatest tinker of all time...
Going into the tenth and final race at Mexico City last week, three drivers were still battling for the championship, and it would have taken a mathematical wizard to figure all the possibilities. Under the complicated system of Grand Prix scoring (nine points for a first place, six for a second, four for third, etc.), Britain's Graham Hill was leading with 39 points, Surtees was second with 34, and Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1963 champion, had 30. Now, if Hill won, it was all over. But if Clark won and Hill and Surtees were...