Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Month? Still unbeaten after 22 pro fights, Champion Clay actually tried to be kind to his beaten challenger. "He is a man, a real man," Cassius told newsmen afterward. He was more candid when a female admirer innocently asked: "What have you been doing tonight?" Replied Cassius: "Oh, beating up little boys...
...Candid as the explanation was, it did not satisfy his customers. "It is really intolerable that power supplies should be inadequate," declared the Times, and other papers agreed. Tongue in cheek, BBC Television Commentator Cliff Michelmore appeared "on behalf of the electrical industry" to report that the blackouts were not "anything like the disgraceful failure of the electric supply in New York last week. Ours were on purpose." As if to prove him right, the Electricity Board's engineer pulled the plug again the next night...
Manager's Ideal. Beame's victory in the primary came as a surprise, since the front-running candidate, City Council President Paul Screvane, had an undisputed record of administrative ability as well as the not-unmixed boon of Mayor Robert Wagner's blessing. Yet Beame, as a candidate for mayor of New York, could almost have been invented by a campaign manager. Born in London, in the course of his poor Jewish parents' emigration from Warsaw, he grew up on the bleakest Lower East Side, earned his tuition through the College of the City...
...England, Waltz of the Toreadors and Guns at Batasi. And it will clinch the reputation of France's 15-year-old Patricia Gozzi, whose first big role was in the warmly praised Sundays and Cybele (TIME, Dec. 7, 1962). The three years have deepened her mobile beauty and candid eyes, and have added a new range that enables her to bring off an astonishingly subtle and convincing leap to maturity after one of the movie's climactic scenes...
This calm and candid response put an abrupt end to rumors running through Washington. It also marked a change of style in the White House press room that was particularly appreciated by the Washington press corps. For months, its members had been griping about President Johnson's management of the news and Reedy's inability to give them the information they thought they had coming to them...