Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outwardly calm DeGuglielmo then appeared before the council. He read a prepared statement detailing the projects of his administration, and said that, if he was to be removed, he supported a nation-wide search for his successor. His only plea was that the council--instead of appointing an interim manager--let him remain in office until the new manager was found...
Thus he counsels patience and perseverance in order to calm the doubts and anxieties of his fellow citizens. "The country wants to be comfortable," he told Arthur Schlesinger in 1960, shortly before announcing his candidacy for the presidency. "It doesn't want to be stirred up. Have a revolution, all right, but don't say anything about it until you are entrenched in office. That's the way Roosevelt...
...Texas' Democratic Representative Wright Patman, whose House sub-committee on foundations has been investigating the whole field for more than five years. One ABC trustee took the Fifth Amendment 83 times when Patman called him, but Managing Trustee Hayes coolly answered many committee questions. Hayes's calm contention throughout was that what he and ABC's members are doing is entirely legal. In any case, Patman was not at all happy about it. "If this sort of thing is carried to its logical conclusion," Patman sputtered, "there would be nobody left to pay taxes...
...line north of Athens in case the King marched south. All telephone and telegraph circuits to the north were cut off. Athens remained totally quiet, and there was no report of any uprising anywhere in the south on behalf of the King. The junta radio boomed out messages for calm and claims that the situation was well in hand...
...hard not to. In the eleven months since "GoGo" Kirk, 41, took office, hardly a day has passed without Page One pictures and stories about him in Florida's press. Whether wooing and marrying German-born Beauty Erika Mattfeld, 33, running his 37-foot sloop aground in mirror-calm seas off Miami, or facing down Rap Brown at a Black Power rally in Jacksonville, the fleshily handsome Governor has always been ready with a colorful quote or bizarre gesture to enhance his swinging image. His travels out of state in a private Lear jet have averaged 10,000 miles...