Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swiss pride themselves on discreetly welcoming even the most notorious guest, but even they were hard put last week to keep their cool. Into their midst dropped perhaps the biggest defector ever to leave the Soviet Union, Stalin's daughter Svetlana. That was bad enough, but it was nothing compared with the force of 200 reporters and TV cameramen that fanned across the country in search of Svetlana, to whom the Swiss gave a visa and the promise of privacy. While Swiss detectives plotted the newsmen's progress like generals keeping tabs on enemy guerrillas, the international press...
School board leaders spend much of their energy coping with segregation problems-even though the bigger issue is the quality of the education and the teachers' expectation of transmitting it. But even segregation defies solution. Superintendent Donovan, a suave Irishman and cool mediator who climbed up through the system's ranks to replace Calvin Gross two years ago, hopes to check it through a gradual shift to a 4-4-4 school organization. (At present, students spend six years in primary schools, three in intermediate or junior high, three in senior high.) This will enable children to stay...
...Good Man, Charlie Brown. The U.S. comic strip has often mimicked and miniaturized the battle of the sexes. In Bringing Up Father, the explosively frustrated, cigar-chewing Jiggs is tamed by the shrew Maggie. In Blondie, the hapless, incompetent Dagwood is forever being put to rights by his cool, frizzy-haired wife. In Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz defined and some what disguised the process by finally reducing the American male to his supposedly intrinsic childishness...
...insisted that he stood 5 ft. 10.) For her height Vanessa is slender: her bust is small, her legs long and elegant; and she moves with the grace of a Watusi dancer?or a high-fashion model. Her lips are thin and subtle, her nose fine, her eyes a cool matte blue. There is something royal in her bearing and at the same time something girlish. The effect is delightfully incongruous. Says Peter Ustinov: "She's a mixture of Harper's bizarre and church bazaar." She is a mod goddess, Eleanor of Aquitaine in a miniskirt...
Only six months ago, the U.S. economy was heating rapidly and Lyndon Johnson decided to cool it. His damper was a dose of New Economics: he asked Congress for a temporary suspension of the 7% investment-tax credit on plant and equipment spending. The move helped chill the economy so much that last week the President requested Congress to reinstate the credit nine months ahead of schedule...