Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SQUARE'S PROGRESS, by Wilfred Sheed. When his wife calls him a bore and leaves him, a nice, adjusted insurance salesman sets out to discover the Cool World. He learns that hips are duller than squares...
Trip to Moscow. Pakistan's relations with Red China had been cool and correct. But after Ayub Khan's recriminations against Washington, things grew warmer. Negotiations were begun to define the 200-mile border with Tibet; Peking proved generous, handing over to Pakistan about 750 sq. mi. of disputed territory. As the Pakistanis turned willing, the Chinese turned eager. Trade expanded; an agreement was reached for Pakistan International Airlines to make biweekly flights between Karachi and Canton; China advanced a $60 million credit to Pakistan...
Late Starter. An international jury of 21 picked the prizewinners, although it could not wait until the U.S. entries (delayed by dock strikes) were uncrated. The U.S. entrants, a rather pallid and particular group of seven "cool" hard-and soft-edge abstractionists, were conceded to be out of the race anyway, since Americans won both the last São Paulo and Venice biennials. The Grande Prémio (a gold medal, shorn by poverty of its usual cash bonus) was split between Italy's Alberto Burri and France's Victor Vasarely...
Toward a Détente. Fowler's first stop last week was Paris, where he got a predictably cool reception. Though France was the first to press hard for monetary reform, it is in no rush for it right now, disagrees with the U.S. on how it should be achieved and what nations should carry it out. France's elegant, ambitious Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing pointedly did not meet Fowler at Orly Airport, and the talks got off to a slow start. After two days of discussion and some gastronomic milestones in Giscard's private dining
...Crayons & Glue. The records show that a healthy man can survive ten days without water (in cool climates), several weeks without solid food (in warm ones), 243 hours without sleep. He can endure air temperatures of 212° (for about an hour), water temperatures of 41° (for about half an hour...