Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florida, where thousands of tourists and residents fled inland. Winds and the highest tides to hit the state since 1926 flooded buildings, ruined crops, disrupted utility services, splintered boats and shattered waterfronts. In a brave attempt to keep guests from fleeing, luxury hotels in soaked Miami Beach threw cheer-up parties...
...factories. Just before the last election, Diefenbaker was so unpopular in Quebec that there was real question whether he would be safe on a campaign swing through French Canada. But tempers cool, and now 1,200 citizens turned up in Ste. Perpétue (pop. 1,160) to cheer his campaign promises: abolition of the 11% sales tax on farm machinery, training schools for farmers, low-interest farm credit. Everywhere, he pecked away at the scandals singeing Mike Pearson's administration. "This government," he said, "is trying to make a banana into a backbone...
There are still 719 cases pending against the electrical companies, but G.E. and Westinghouse both say that most of their remaining suits are small. The two companies claim that they have already settled 99% of the dollar value of suits brought against them. G.E. stockholders have something more to cheer them up. Last year, because the company paid much of the damage claims out of current earnings, G.E.'s record earnings of $3.44 per share had to be adjusted to $2.62. This year the company will pay all claims from a special reserve fund that it says is ample...
Since 65% to 90% of reported crimes involve cars, the cops see Corral as the sharpest new weapon in their fast-growing arsenal of computerized devices against crime (TIME, July 30). Though that is something to cheer about, last week's demonstration had the circus look of an elephant swatting a gnat. At least some of Mrs. Placente's ambushers might have been more profitably engaged in solving real crimes that occur in New York City on an average day: one murder, four rapes, 22 holdups, 41 assaults, 117 grand larcenies, 123 burglaries. Taken to court, Mrs. Placente...
What They Want. Ashe is a fourth-year scholarship student in business administration at U.C.L.A., moves in the world of topflight U.S. tennis with charm and infectious good cheer. "If it were left up to me," he says, "I wouldn't feel anything about being the first Negro on the Davis Cup team. But I am asked about it all the time, so naturally, I am conscious of it. Of course, I know I was wanted on the team because I was needed. If I weren't needed, perhaps the atmosphere would be different." His teammates couldn...