Word: calmers
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...site bombed into the Stone Age, or at least until the credits roll? Each finish was filmed, and each had its supporters, with the movie's distributor, United Artists, rather partial to the more pulverizing-and just possibly more profitable-version. The director, however, began to favor a calmer conclusion and will close his film without the fireworks. At least for now. "Francis just loves to fiddle," explains one of his aides. "It's in his makeup...
...familiar freebies (toasters, tickets to shows) and new appeals. For example, New York's big Bowery Savings Bank (assets: $5 billion) now has its longtime pitchman, Yankee Slugger Joe DiMaggio, asking folks to take money out of stocks and put it into thrift accounts because it is "a calmer investment." And at some banks, depositors wanting to make sizable withdrawals have found themselves practically grilled by officials about their reasons for doing...
...somehow, as he climbed 10 ft. to allow the boat's approach, he found calmer air and suddenly mustered a burst of energy. For the rest of the trip, Albatross remained well clear of the water...
...Missile Crisis. Yet there were positive steps forward--a move toward detente with the Test Ban Treaty, the recognition of a world of diversity and of a nation's right to neutrality, the moral acknowledgement that the situation of black people was a disgrace to the nation. If these "calmer days" are to bring us a clearer judgment of JFK, then the black must be seen with the white, with a good deal of gray in between...
Kennedy was neither incompetent nor great as president, but he showed enough to indicate that he had the potential for greatness. That is what was killed at Dallas. That is what we must recall in these calmer days...