Word: mountaintop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kirk Douglas is a slob and an architect at work on a mountaintop house that will one day be occupied by a bachelor novelist (glibly played by Ernie Kovacs) and his mistress of the moment. Douglas has a successful marriage and one little boy, over whose head he is warned by his attractive wife (Barbara Rush) that "martinis don't mix with s-e-x." "What's s-e-x?" inquires the youth. "Is it like Santa Claus?" Daddy, at any rate, is full of the Old Nick. Symbols clank as Douglas and Novak meet at a roadside...
Closeup View. But it was at Camp David, the presidential retreat on a Maryland mountaintop, that Khrushchev's visit came into focus with its greatest meaning to 1959. At Camp David, under a canopy of oak leaves, the President of the U.S. and the Premier of the U.S.S.R. walked and talked along winding gravel paths, lived together for three days in Ike's grey, batten-board Aspen Lodge...