Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though generating a good deal of popular enthusiasm, the Governor was having less luck in getting wary politicians to line up behind him. In Chicago, he was greeted with cool detachment by Senator Charles Percy-who, like Hatfield, may see a vice-presidential nomination for himself under Nixon. In Ohio, Governor James A-Rhodes, who controls 55 of his state's 58 votes, likes Rocky's style but still awaits a more impressive showing in the polls...
...cool ploy, Brandt openly mused whether the East German moves were indeed serving the best interests of the Soviet Union. He explained that Ulbricht's aggressive actions only encouraged the rise of right-wing extremism in West Germany and strengthened the obduracy of conservative elements that oppose West German ratification of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which Russia and the U.S. jointly sponsor...
...immediate issue is simply who can best maintain order in France, and then, in the long run, solve the antagonisms and grievances that have been exposed in recent weeks. Fearing that De Gaulle will benefit from a backlash law-and-order vote, the Communists have redoubled their efforts to cool the situation. "Every time somebody gets socked, it's worth at least 100 and perhaps 1,000 votes to the Gaullists," said one ranking French Communist. To counter this, the Communists sought to project themselves as a patriotic party of moderation. "We are not adventurers!" cried Party Boss Waldeck...
Responding to strongly worded advice from President Robert W. Haack of the N.Y.S.E., several brokerage firms have begun taking direct action to cool the speculative fervor. E. F. Hutton & Co. announced that it will forbid its salesmen to solicit orders to buy stocks selling for less than $5 a share and will allow them no commission on such orders. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest securities concern, said it plans to increase restrictions on margin accounts...
...labyrinthine complications of the script use birth control pills for comic fuel the way French farce uses bedrooms. Gerald Hardcastle (David Niven), an elegant British banker with a cool million and a cooler mistress (Irina Demick), decides that he wants out of his dreary twelve-year marriage. Knowing that his wife Prudence (Deborah Kerr) has hardly been faithful herself, he substitutes aspirin for her birth control pills in hopes that she'll become pregnant by her lover so he can sue for divorce. Meanwhile, the Hardcastle maid decides to yield to her boy friend's advances and swipes...