Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slight chill." Walter Heller, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, conceded that January had been "particularly bumpy." Spurts & Pauses. But both Hodges and Heller insisted that 1962 would still be a good year. Actually, said Heller, the economy is "in the midst of a very brisk recovery despite certain spurts and pauses. Some of our bumpiest recoveries have been our best." During the week, the figures for February began to come in-and they were certainly encouraging. Auto sales totaled 455,300, a 26% jump over February 1961. Normally, unemployment increases during the dead-of-winter...
...letters, and directed by Alain Resnais, the 39-year-old Frenchman who made Hiroshima, Mon Amour (TIME, May 16, 1960), has been bruited about Europe as a masterpiece of the cinema of ideas. It won the grand prize at the Venice Film Festival, and went on to do a brisk business all over the continent. Released now in the U.S., it promises to become the intellectual sensation of the cinema year, and to judge from pre-release excitement it is going to make money...
...ideal flying weather. The morning was dazzlingly clear, the ceiling and visibility unlimited, and a brisk, 20-mile-an-hour wind blew from the northwest. As New York waited to welcome Astronaut John Glenn, American Airlines' Flight One-nonstop to Los Angeles-screamed down the runway of International Airport at Idlewild, consuming a normal 5,000 feet of concrete before it left the ground in a perfect takeoff. Two minutes later, the flight of American One was over-and so were the lives of its 95 passengers and crew members. It was the worst tragedy involving a single plane...
...everything else about Murder (She Said) is handsome too. Messrs. Justice and Kennedy are agreeable objects, the one as a bed-ridden patriarch, the other as a sympathetic country doctor from this side of the water. The direction is brisk, the screenplay properly ominous, and some one has written a remarkably lively musical score, which is performed on what sounds like a bar-room harpsichord. One trusts that Miss Rutherford's long deferred American fame will now at length, be firmly secured...
Abandoning his usual brisk manner, continued, "We have to hope... have to hope, we have to try to make basis for hope. The steps we may at this conference will make a big to the human race...