Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent issue of Figaro printed excerpts from My American Prisons, a new book by Parisian Jacques Angelvin, 54, who describes his five years of confinement in half a dozen U.S. jails. Responding to the author's Michelinesque approach, Figaro also displayed appropriate symbols to indicate the comfort, cuisine, amenities, amusements and other facilities offered by American jails...
...Nixon's habit of flying to Florida for the sun. On election night in 1960, Rebozo was the only outsider invited to Nixon's Ambassador Hotel suite in Los Angeles to watch returns with the family. While Nixon conferred with aides, it fell to Rebozo to comfort Pat and the girls as John Kennedy emerged the winner of a historically close race for the presidency...
...safety is concerned," he said. "I share the grief. But as long as we mine coal, there is always this inherent danger of explosion." For relatives of the missing miners, huddled in their parked pickup trucks or on folding chairs in the grimy company store, that was scant comfort...
...Harlem group that is trying to bypass the city and organize a separate school district that will report directly to the state. Literary Critic Alfred Kazin contributes a whimsical appreciation of the Upper West Side: "Nowhere else I have ever lived is there such excess of money to comfort, of comfort to taste, of taste to safety." Above all, the Tribune plans to be a paper of investigation. For the first issue, a team of reporters did some comparison shopping and concluded that Harlem residents pay up to six times as much for prescription medicine as people on the West...
...COMPUTERS that have fore-gone the real world for experimentation in the laboratory have gained exotic accomplishments. A plaque and a trophy sit atop the PDP-6 computer in M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Lab. They were won in chess tournaments. Even psychiatry is tainted. An M.I.T. computer offers comfort to any troubled human. You sit at a typewriter keyboard and inform the machine that your father beats you. "I'm glad you mention your home life," the computer replies politely. "You haven't said much about your mother, for instance...