Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peak hours save for buses and taxis. All seemed bellissimo when the plan went into effect: children calmly played soccer at the foot of the Spanish steps, where autos once hurtled blithely by; grown-ups ambled wonderingly down the center of the fashionable Via Condotti, window-shopping at their casual ease...
Calm & Effective. Perhaps. But there was little doubt last week that much of the credit for the successful rendezvous belonged to casual Wally Schirra, who, at 42, is the oldest astronaut flying. It was his cool and seasoned performance during the abortive Sunday launch of Gemini 6 that made the midweek triumph possible. Had he panicked and pulled the Dring ("chicken switch") that would have ejected him and Copilot Stafford from the Gemini capsule, the mission could probably not have been sent aloft on time. His superb piloting of the capsule, perfected in long hours of practice in the Houston...
...Lord Coal managed to turn a modest $3.9 million profit, but rising competition, casual labor practices and overoptimistic expansion soon reddened the ink again. "If we were a private corporation," admits Robens, "the stockholders would have been bankrupt a long time ago." The government's protective measures (a virtual ban on coal imports, a twopence-per-gallon tax on oil) have been to no avail. And, despite promises that they will get new jobs, the 120,000 miners who will be thrown out of work by the pit closures are no longer sure that Alf Robens is their best...
Cavanagh's strength at home can be measured by the size of his re-election victory last month. Although his opponent tried to ignite casual bigots' fear of "crime in the streets," he only got 144,000 votes to the Mayor's 295,000. Like most liberals Cavanagh could count on the County AFL-CIO and all the major Negro organizations for support, but he also received votes, money, and testimonials from automobile executives and most local businessmen...
Reagan and his followers are already adept at exploiting the kind of fears that Watts rioters instilled in California's casual bigots. But they are probably just beginning to learn how to play upon the battles between the generations that are behind the other threats to the way of life of middle-class Californians. Reagan has said that he will have something to say about Berkeley in his campaign next year, but the slick political management firm he hired has probably not quite decided what it is yet. All anyone can be sure of is that in a conflict between...