Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role in the modern American Drama. Little Black children everywhere can hold their beautiful black heads high and beam with a black pride that no one can take from them. For the Black man has shouldered the weight of this country's evils and yet maintained a kind of cool perseverance, drive and stick-to-itive-ness that can never be overlooked nor forgotten...
...hardly looked as if she had spent 2½ annoying hours in a plane stacked up over Kennedy Airport, only to emerge into the mid-90° steam bath that was Manhattan last week. As cool and beautiful as a nightblooming cereus, French Film Star Catherine Deneuve, 24, was over from Paris for three weeks of filming on The April Fools, a romantic comedy about two sufferers of mal de mariage. And pity the folks dying to show her the town. What with costumers, hairdressers, script girls and the rest, it was almost a week before Socialites Heidi Vanderbilt...
...Monster. The job can be dangerous as well as difficult. At The Geysers, a new well erupted with such furious force that the scalded workmen were convinced they had tapped a live volcano. To cool it off, they pumped in cold water until a nearby stream ran dry. Then they tried a concrete plug, without success. "The Monster," as they dubbed the well a decade ago, continues to spout...
...farmers in "the Artichoke Capital of the World," where 90% of the nation's supply is grown, the mice are a disaster. Blessed with sandy soil and cool, sun-shading ocean fog, in which the temperamental artichoke thrives, the country's annual crop normally exceeds 35,000 tons. But no longer. Downpours in the spring of 1967 left the normally quiescent beasties with little to do but hole up and breed; droughts this year then forced the hungry hordes of rodents onto the well-tended artichoke fields. Thus the Monterey farmers are losing up to 50% or more...
...swoon whenever Ronald Reagan mounts the platform. George Wallace's appearance at the sikeningly plush Sheraton Boston Hotel resembled an old-style political revival. Nelson Rockefeller pulled thousands of Wall St. bankers and their secretaries from the ticker tapes to an hour-long rally in tropical heat. And even cool Eugene McCarthy has had to start kissing babies...