Word: candidness
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...next four days, Janos focused on the ordeal of the three astronauts. Neff reported on how decisions were being reached at Mission Control, while Schefter and Anderson provided commentary on the technical problems of the rescue. Throughout, says Janos, "NASA remained calm, candid and cooperative. Busy Administrator Tom Paine found a quiet corner to talk at length with us about the problems confronting NASA after the accident. Chris Kraft gave Don and me steaming mugs of coffee during one interview, lent us a tape recorder when ours suffered battery problems...
Richard Nixon is not about to be caught by anyone's candid camera. Laments one White House photographer: "We pretty much do the ceremonial stuff in the office-bill signings, Cabinet meetings. The photographic image of Richard Nixon is of a man taking a shower with his suit and vest...
...opening for war critics like Senator George McGovern, who seized on B-52 raids on the Plain to charge that "we are going down the same road in Laos [as in Viet Nam], and we are doing it in secret." Richard Nixon's response was swift and apparently candid. On March 6 in Key Biscayne, he outlined the U.S. role in Laos-never before admitted in detail by any Administration-as "supportive and defensive." To emphasize the "limited" nature of the U.S. role, he stated flatly that "no American stationed in Laos has ever been killed in ground combat...
...years hence. Crowley's work as a play has already done more to legitimize homosexuality as a topic for popular culture than anything else before it. As a movie, it will help open up such remaining bastions of heterosexual chauvinism as pop music and the musical theatre to candid expression by homosexual artists...
Those surprisingly candid words appeared last week in a statement by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. They convey a sudden new respect for the student demonstrators who have marched and rioted in Manila's streets practically every week since late January. The determined student protesters have triggered the Philippines' worst political crisis since the island nation achieved independence...