Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese electorate warmed to its role, the civilian candidates who had been crying foul seemed to cool off. The civilian with the best chance of making a strong showing against the Thieu-Ky ticket, former Premier Tran Van Huong, announced that "harass ment has diminished." Front-running Thieu had his own reply to charges of election rigging: "If I were to win the elections by foul means, it would be an insult to myself." President Johnson's 22 observers arrived to see for themselves, and were clearly impressed with the mechanical organization of the balloting. Some 100,000 people...
Mayor Teddy Kollek's municipal government has lifted the nightly curfew, and cool jazz echoes once more through cobbled alleyways from the Cave du Roi and Les Caves discotheques...
Banished Offenders. Because of its growing influence, Women's Wear has had a noticeable effect on the fashion business. Manufacturers are quick to adopt such Fairchild slogans as "Real-girl" and "Sportive," "Young Arrogant" and "Cool Chic." "When they started bringing out 'sportive girdles,' I couldn't believe it," says Fairchild. But the Women's Wear role of self-appointed arbiter of fashion is often resented. "I dispute their right to judge fashion before it happens," says Designer Pauline Trigere, "and they do it all the time...
...Born Losers are a bunch of lorn boozers, motorcyclists who get their kicks by staging rape-ins and terrorizing towns. Even the police are afraid to touch the little-read riding hoods who swagger around California wearing swastikas and blaring "man," "cool" and "baby" in between crimes. As is only proper in a low-grade western, vigilante justice finally prevails when a rodeo-riding half-breed (Tom Laughlin) hunts them down and makes them cry into their beards...
...cold war on a par with the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars. Where was its Jena, its Marne or its Stalingrad? But Louis Halle, a longtime State Department adviser under Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower, and lately a professor of international studies in Geneva, contends in this cool, dispassionate study that the cold war was every bit as climactic and dramatic a power struggle as those bloody predecessors. What's more, says Halle, the cold war is over, though the conditions of conflict that bred it continue...