Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America, did research for the CIA, helped to draft the 1962 Trade Extension Act, toiled for NATO on the problems of a multinational nuclear force and hit the banquet trail as the Yale law faculty's most zealous rustler of alumni cash. Through it all, Manning stayed as cool and witty as ever. "He never bristles or sulks," says Rostow, "and he needs no soothing...
...responsibilities to businessmen in the campaign for next month's elections, and even the Communists have given up preaching collectivization to workers who drive their own Fiats to the plants. "Neocapitalism," says Marchese Pucci, "is a system in which workers and management find common interests." Says Pierre Auguste Cool, president of Belgium's Christian Trade-Unions: "If I were to tell my members that capitalism is a threat, they would advise me to see a doctor...
Foreign Affairs. In foreign and defense matters, Wilson creates some uneasiness in Washington. He wants to abandon Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, wants to renegotiate the Nassau agreement, which originally promised Britain Polaris missiles. This switch might not trouble Washington. But Wilson is also known to be cool, if not downright hostile, to joining M.L.F., the multilateral nuclear force that the U.S. is pushing hard, and he is sometimes regarded as a little too eager for a détente with Communism and for various disarmament schemes. But despite the lingering left wing, Harold Wilson's Labor Party...
...look-see at the nonaligned nations' conference in Cairo, he could hardly wait to get a line on Rome itself. There he wined a lovely Gina Lollobrigida, 35, at lunch, and she, in turn, dined and danced with him to the Volare of Domenico Modugno at a cool little do she threw for 70 friends and countrymen. She even took him to a private showing of her latest flick, Woman of Straw, and her company to Sukarno, as the legions of paparazzi recorded, was clearly a triumph of imperialism...
...favor slogans that offer a new and better product ("New Deal," "New Frontier"). The Grand Old Party, like whisky distillers, prefers to emphasize aged-in-the-wood reliability, from Abraham Lincoln's "Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream" to 1924's "Keep cool with Coolidge...