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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...under it. One reason why Birdie lands on its feet is that it is so seldom off them. People rarely sit, or even stand still; they drop funny remarks hastening in one direction, not so funny ones fleeing in another. Musically the show travels rather light, once or twice with an empty suitcase. But Bye Bye Birdie successfully elevates freshness above slickness, playfulness above workmanship, and can boast a spanking enough breeze to explain why things now and then get blown about...
Metzger ate twice a day (he lost 4 Ibs.), read the Bible, watched TV through a window in the 7-ft. diameter cone, slept only six hours a night but made up for it by lying on his back some twelve hours a day, doing nothing at all. Sheets of potassium superoxide absorbed his breath, removed the potentially poisonous carbon dioxide and released the fresh oxygen that he lived on all week. He came through so well that the space doctors are now at last ready to try the test in the weightless condition of actual space, first with animals...
...delighted," says one Canadian telemeter user, H. W. Wilcox. "We used to go to the movies about twice a year. Now we go twice a week and have all the comforts of home." Rare is the Etobicoke citizen who disagrees. Yet, despite the obvious novelty of the electronic gimmick, local moviehouses so far report no drop in attendance. And no one yet has reported a wayward child's spending too much money for shows the family cannot afford-a favorite prediction of pay TV opponents...
...week the man from Oxnard was "talking it out" in a group psychotherapy session at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, where he is now confined. With him were eight other convicted felons and Psychologist Gerald Berton. Most striking was the fact that Psychologist Berton, in charge of the twice-weekly, one-hour session, had the least...
...wrote home that he had a hard time finding a martini with enough vermouth in it. Last year a member of the Japanese Diet toured the U.S. accompanied by an aide loaded down with gallon bottles of sake, a huge box of rice, Japanese pickles, soy sauce and seaweed. Twice nearly ejected from hotels for cooking odoriferous concoctions in his room, he was upbraided when he got back home for causing Japan bad publicity. His explanation: "How could I trust the native food...