Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's most trusted advisers on the war. As commander of the 101st Airborne Division* at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Taylor earned the sobriquet "Mr. Attack." During the hearings, he proved that he is also a master of cool, impenetrable defense. Under heavy fire from committee members, Taylor, crisply handsome in dark grey suit and TV-blue shirt, held his ground with the grace and sang-froid of a man whose intellect and experience were more than a match for his august adversaries...
Good Tidings. Humphrey went next to Karachi, where the populace was cool and the press preachy. The Vice President got a graphic reminder of past strains in U.S.-Pakistan relations (despite the $4.7 billion that the nation has received in American aid) when his motorcade took him past the ruins of a U.S. Information Service center that was set afire in anti-Washington riots last September. To both Pakistan and India, which are still smarting over suspension of U.S. aid programs as a result of their border war over Kashmir, Humphrey bore good, if modest, tidings. After conferring with Pakistan...
Crimson swordsmen are easily rattled. They blew last week's Penn match when two sabre men dropped tense 5-4 bouts in the first round. But he probably wont' lose their cool against Princeton, one of the League's weaker teams...
...students seem to be losing their enthusiasm for the amorphous affairs; but, more important, the Berkeley police are not losing theirs. They were on hand once more last week, as they have been since the first volatile protests started. Helmetless in the thick of a riot, cool in the midst of frenzy, the department's skillful crowd-control experts were quick to head off trouble before it started. Time and again the Berkeley cops have been called the most enlightened police force in the nation. Says no less a home-town citizen than California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rodger...
Professor George Kennedy has cut in half previous estimates of the tempera ture of the earth's core. His cool calculations promise new insight into both the current structure of the earth and ancient geologic activity...