Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department orders, even ignores them if he feels they are ill advised. "A calculated risk," he says, "is what they say in Washington when they mean, 'I don't think this will work, but don't blame me later.'" On major issues his brisk, elegant telegrams are written more for White House consumption than for the "ice palace," as he sometimes jokingly calls the State Department. The President has blessed Galbraith's independent ways. "It's O.K., Ken," he told the ambassador on one of his reappearances in Washington...
Before he sits down to play a concert, Pianist John Browning follows a simple routine: he eats an early dinner (steak and baked potato), takes a short brisk walk to the concert hall, touches his fingers to his toes 25 times. The acrobatics, he explains, are to get the blood out of his stomach and into his hands, where it belongs. Over the years, the exercises have proved remarkably effective-at 28, Browning is one of the most gifted pianists of his generation. Last week, playing with the New York Philharmonic under Guest Conductor Georg Solti, he reminded audiences just...
...local politicians might eventually accomplish in Goa, the immediate problems were economic. Goa's virtually duty-free status sent swarms of Indian soldiers into shops stocked with inexpensive foreign luxury items seldom seen in India because of the government's stringent import restrictions. Shopkeepers did a brisk business in transistor radios, cameras, electric appliances, cosmetics, perfumes, wines. In one Pangim shop alone, Indian soldiers bought 1,400 Max Factor lipsticks. Truckloads of refrigerators were purchased by army officers for shipment home. But the days of the modest boom are numbered. High on the agenda of the Indian government...
Divorced. By Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, brisk, outspoken board chairman of U.S. Steel until his 1955 retirement: Hazel Hatfield Fairless, 61. Fairless' second wife (they were married after her daughter married his son), whom he charged with "indignities"' kept secret by the court; after 17 years of marriage; in Greensburg...
...last remaining soft spots in the U.S. economy are firming. After months in the horse latitudes, retail and auto sales are scudding along at a brisk pace. Last week came two new harbingers of boom: a sharp drop in unemployment and a pickup in the long-sluggish construction market...