Word: calming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cool it for the Doc." Mississippi's Charles Evers curbed a Jackson rising with Kingly oratory. Even such hardcore militants as Harlem Mau Mau Leader Charles 37X Kenyatta and Los Angeles' Ron Karenga, the shaven-skulled boss of "US," manned sound trucks and passed resolutions calling for calm. Yet in the unhappy racial climate of the U.S. today, that forbearance could unravel with calamitous speed...
...grinned. "I was the only one who had been in all day." Certainly, his appeal to G.O.P. voters is far wider than Bobby's. Said Barry Goldwater of McCarthy last week: "He's a gentleman and a scholar who has done things in a calm and reasonable way." Indeed, some saw in his style and views elements of a latter-day Wendell Willkie-a view confirmed by a thought-provoking article on the presidency that he wrote last week...
Comradely Compromise. Relatively few men could have brought oft such changes with such calm and order. A tall, mannerly man with a receding blond hairline, Dubček would be an unlikely choice for the task if only because he is a Slovak-the first ever to be entrusted with the most powerful office in the land. Though he has spent most of his adult life as a Communist apparatchik, he has none of the iron rigidity of that breed. Polite and softspoken, he is a master of restraint and poise, dislikes both dogmatism and pyrotechnics. A persuader rather than...
...events in Czechoslovakia gathered such force, in fact, that at week's end they produced a sort of Communist summit. Seeking to calm the fears of his Communist neighbors that his re forms might go too far and produce another Hungary, Dubcek traveled to Dresden in East Germany to confer with Communist leaders. The meeting was attended by East German Boss Walter Ulbricht, who is openly concerned by his neighbor's new course, and by Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka. Hungarian Communist officials also showed up. Finally, as an indication of the meet ing's importance, both...
...blocks away, the George V, though subtly different, is no less desirable. There, hushed calm is replaced by a livelier atmosphere. Its 370 rooms, served by 510 employees, include 52 small apartments with kitchenettes for long-term guests. The busy George V crowd is made up mostly of top executives and the film set-nearly half of them Americans-willing to pay up to $100 a night for a suite...