Word: brightening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Show of Support. Dismayed as Humphrey was by his party's confused, cacophonous mood, he began to brighten perceptibly as the balloting got under way and moved him ever closer to the nomination. The total mounted toward the needed 1,312. "Oregon is zilch," said Humphrey; his fellow Minnesotan, Senator Eugene McCarthy, had won its 35 votes in the May primary. Humphrey leaned forward expectantly, then broke into a wide grin as Pennsylvania put him over the top with 103¾ votes. "Pennsylvania started it and Pennsylvania put us over!" said the jubilant Humphrey, recalling that the state's show...
...Mitchell Ryan's sodden, dandyish Jim Tyrone is a tarnished peacock straight from Old Broadway. Salome Jens, with hoydenish charm, discloses the vulnerable waif inside the intimidating woman. Director Theodore Mann has sensitively staged the play in fidelity to O'Neill's intent: Moon does not brighten the sky, but mirrors itself in melancholy fragments on a swelling sea of sorrow...
...Curtis is discontinuing the magazine; another possibility is removing it from competition with LIFE and Look and aiming it at a less urban, less sophisticated audience. Its present 6,800,000 circulation could then fall to a more comfortable level. With the Post problem settled, Curtis' outlook would brighten markedly. The company's other major magazines-Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, American Home and Jack and Jill-are in much healthier condition...
...cutbacks, France found itself with unemployment at a record Gaullist high of 450,000. To offset this, the government plans to inject $600 million into the economy during the year, while continuing to boost exports. Now that West Germany is back on its feet, the export business promises to brighten the French employment picture as the country's economy moves closer to the 5% growth rate it has been reaching...
...number of card-carrying troopers three years ago. Between propaganda drumbeats, the recruits practice marching with rock-filled rucksacks to ready them for the 73-lb. burden of gear and ammunition each must carry for as long as six months down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Banjo-and-songfests brighten recruit training, and each squad gets a regular issue of a deck of cards-with the stern warning that it is not to be used for gambling...