Word: acquaintanceships
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...being too stingy in doling out money, thus pushing up interest rates too much, and yet it did not seem to antagonize Burns' conservative admirers. Quite the contrary; Miller's long career at Textron and service on various business and government committees have given him a wide acquaintanceship in the financial community, and most businessmen and bankers hailed him as one of their own. Miller will have to be a miracle man to keep that universal favor; his cheering section includes both people who predict that he will be less tight on money than Burns, and others...
...Costanza began her career as a switchboard operator. Over 24 years, she rose to executive assistant to a Rochester entrepreneur, and carried out a parallel career in city and state politics. For Vice Mayor Midge (she uses her formal name, Margaret, only on voting machines), politics led to an acquaintanceship with Carter-and, ultimately, her present job. Never married, Costanza lives alone in a Foggy Bottom condominium and devotes virtually all of her waking hours to the job. (The man in her life died last year...
...bees are aswarming." Girls are variously "ugly as homemade soap" or "pretty as a speckled pup." It does not rain in the South; it "comes up a cloud." For young children, the mystery of the belly button is easy to explain: it is "where the Yankee shot you." Acquaintanceship? "We've howdied but we haven't shook." Crowding? "There's not room enough in here to skin a cat without getting hair in your mouth." If things are going well, "life's just a slide on a doughnut." There is also the Southern man who lies...
GEMINI; Erroll Garner (London, $5.98). In his 60th or so LP, Jazz Pianist Garner sounds fresher and more original than he has in years. Standards like How High the Moon and It Could Happen to You comprise the usual teasing introduction and pleasing acquaintanceship. Two Afro-Latin originals, Gemini and Eldorado, burst with exhilarating improvisation...
...while in Germany. He reported on the tense atmosphere in West Berlin following the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1969, he interviewed Albert Speer, Hitler's Munitions Minister, who was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and wrote Inside the Third Reich. They struck up an acquaintanceship and still exchange letters...