Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harbor last week cruised the Queen Mary with a novel come-on: 20 slot machines set up in the first-and cabin-class smoking rooms and the tourist lounge. All the way across the Atlantic, the "fruit machines" (as the Cunard Line labeled the one-armed bandits) did a brisk business. "The slot-machine area was the busiest place on the boat, busier even than the bar," reported Passenger Stanton Griffis, former U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Poland. "You couldn't fight your way to them...
...finished products will be hit harder. This includes high-duty products that compete directly with Europe's fastest-growing industries, such as finished chemicals and steel, machinery and electrical equipment, cars and trucks. But there should always be a brisk market for U.S. specialties, ranging from automated gear to wash-and-wear fabrics. In this year's first quarter. Common Market imports of U.S. office accounting and computing machines more than doubled, to $23 million. Says the Chase Manhattan Bank: "Those U.S. exports will fare best that are unique -in performance, design or cost...
Most noticeable in the Peace Corps office is the people. They don't stroll through the halls, they walk with a brisk stride, if not a canter. They type furiously, answer telephones at a fantastic rate, and always seem to be smiling...
Died. Silliman Evans Jr., 36, brisk, self-assured publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, which he took over from his late father at 30; of a heart attack; while cruising on Tennessee's Old Hickory lake. A printer's devil at eight and the Air Transport Command's youngest World War II pilot at 18, influential Democrat Evans backed Lyndon Johnson for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, was recently appointed to the Johnson-led President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity...
...subject, who proved courteously cooperative-but busy. The very fact that made General Taylor cover-worthy this week-his role in the vital decision-making on Berlin-also made him inaccessible to interviewing for long stretches of time. Rinehart's final interview with Taylor was conducted at a brisk semi-dogtrot through Arlington National Cemetery. The general likes to start his day at Fort Myer, Va., with a mile and a quarter of "walking." Rinehart tagged along, trying to scribble a note or two on the run. "As we burst out of the cemetery," reported Rinehart, "the general...