Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Days. "My seventies were interesting and fairly serene," she noted, "but my eighties are passionate. I am so disturbed by the outer world, and by human quality in general, that I want to put things right as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down...
Throughout the myriad crises, King continues to exude confidence. "I have no doubts-absolutely none-that we shall surmount our temporary problems," he says. King has been flying the financial circuit, trying to calm creditors and ease the cash crunch. Last week there were unconfirmed reports that some banks would tide King over with fresh financing. Clearly, King is determined not to reign over the liquidation of an empire. The next few weeks will show whether his determination, persuasiveness and agility will be enough to cure the short-term ailments and give King Resources time to achieve what it desperately...
Serenely set on a hilltop in the village of San Anton, the deluxe Corinthia Palace Hotel is four miles inland from the Mediterranean. Still, the scene within the hotel's gleaming white walls was as diverse as any beneath that calm, bright sea. Delegates scampered through the hotel lobby in bathing trunks just in time to change for the morning sessions. Thomas Mann's erudite daughter, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, who originated the conference, chatted with Cameroon's U.N. Minister Paul Bamela Engo, resplendent in red fez and flowing blue robe. Justice William O. Douglas, chairman...
...ceremonies began in steamy 90° sunshine with a religious service on the steps beneath Lincoln's massive statue. Some 25,000 people filled the calm and lovely setting below the steps and around the Reflecting Pool. Pat Boone sang the national anthem, Frank Borman gave a prayer, Kate Smith sang God Bless America. The speaker was Billy Graham, who called the nation to God and pleaded that it "stop the polarization before it is too late." At appropriate moments, or just for the fun of it, the children in the crowd waved their flags...
Finding a Calling. Separated from both his wife and his church, he moved to Hollywood after a hitch in the Army. There, one summer night in 1968, Perry bailed a fellow homosexual out of jail and tried to calm him. "It's no use," sobbed the young man. "No one cares for us homosexuals...