Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment he asks permission to nose his jet away from the ramp, the pilot?however silvery his hair and steady his hand?must work in close partnership with an individual who is usually a decade or two his junior and may be as outwardly nervous as the pilot is calm. As a group, air controllers are intense and self-confident men (their ranks include few women) who are polished professionals. Day after day, unheard by the passengers riding in the sky, controllers spot pilots who have strayed into trouble and direct them to safety. A disaster could occur during even...
...Champion was at ease. Surrounded by a half dozen Washington correspondents for newspapers like The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, the former Harvard financial vice president answered questions he must have heard five or six times before, always retaining his easy good humor and calm assurance. As an ex-reporter, he seemed to understand why they had to keep asking the same questions, but as a newly nominated government official, he was also careful to give the same answer to each--a denial here, a shrug of the shoulders there, and a smile...
This impression of recovery and calm also pervaded the presidential palace. Perhaps to enhance the new mood of accommodation, the Vietnamese seated Dong and Woodcock at a tea table flanked with bouquets of carnations, chrysanthemums and gladiolas. At one point, Dong came out to talk with U.S. reporters. "Your good will ... makes us happy and grateful. Now is the time for reconciliation." The Premier then raised his hands, palms together, in a gesture of friendship and went back into the room, presumably to deliver much the same message to Woodcock...
...police have developed a different approach: keep talking, keep calm, wait them out. All of the FBI's 59 field divisions have agents who have had special training at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va. It is the FBI policy that only if the hostages seem in imminent danger of being killed is an attack normally ordered. While a specially trained FBI negotiator tries to lower the level of tension and assess the hostage taker's motives and weaknesses, other agents seek information that will let them develop a psychological profile of the criminal. What makes...
...Dylan must have other reasons for staying away. Perhaps he still harbors some feat of unknown promoters, preferring the calm efficiency of Bill Graham. But this gathering of over twenty groups of pluckers, singers, strummers, poets, grinners, mimes, pickers, jugglers, solo breakers, films, twangers, storytellers, dulcimer hammerers, balladeers, and at least one sidewalk artist (he draws on sidewalks) is being organized by the Winthrop House Folk and Jazz Society, whose recent spate of profitable concerts proves its competence and artistically populist nature. Whipoorwill Productions, a group of musicians in the festival, is co-sponsoring the event along with the Music...