Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peddling such optional extras as the standard-eternal or perpetual-eternal flames ("The standard burns only during visiting hours"). Milton Berle and Margaret Leighton enliven one interlude as a married pair squabbling over the remains of their dear departed, a dog named Arthur. Jonathan Winters succeeds outrageously as the mastermind of Whispering Glades, who wants to "get those stiffs off my property" and transform his real estate into a haven for senior citizens. His brainstorm ("Resurrection-Now!"): disinter the cadavers and, beginning with a dead astronaut, fire them into eternal orbit...
...rogues' gallery currently at hand are three idiotic young jailbirds fresh out of prison and admonished to "limit yourselves to a little honest pilfering." They are quickly embroiled in hijacking a train, kidnaping a German NATO general, and grabbing a payroll of about ?1,000,000. Mastermind of the scheme is a bespectacled genius (Anton Rodgers) who operates a crime school fronting as a nature clinic where dotty old ladies imbibe mineral water laced with gin. Rodgers' girl friend (Charlotte Rampling) is a pert socialite making her criminal debut as the temptress assigned to dazzle a lieutenant...
...rumor mills are grinding out every kind of story among anti-Castro Cuban exiles, pro-Castro students, travelers and diplomats on both sides of the fence. A popular theory has it that Che is - or was - the secret mastermind behind the leftists in the Dominican civil war. The story comes in half a dozen versions: Che has shaved his beard, and is fighting with Caamaño's rebels in downtown Santo Domingo; he was killed a few weeks ago, and his features disfigured so no one could prove that he had been there. Variations have him directing...
...Court Justice Napoleon Bona parte Johnson, 74, on impeachment charges made by the state house of representatives (TIME, April 16). The case hinged on the testimony of former Justice Nelson S. Corn, 81, who was granted immunity after admitting that in 1957 he took a $150,000 bribe to mastermind the 6-2 reversal of a state tax claim against a shady investment company...
Peppard plods heroically along, becomes the trusted aide of the mastermind behind the V-2 program-a character not unlike Wernher von Braun -and is all set for a preposterous last-reel countdown. He shoots it out with the Gestapo, slaughters scores of guards, finally pulls the switch that opens the doors that let out the light that serves as a signal to Allied planes. The bombardiers drop in their eggs just in time to abort an intercontinental missile called "the New York rocket," lifting off for parts unknown. In fact, Germany's underground rocket factory was never bombed...