Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headline: TARUC SURRENDERS TO PRESIDENT MAGSAYSAY, but at the Philippine army's Camp Murphy the situation looked somewhat different. Taruc was installed in quarters usually reserved for VIPs. A Cabinet officer lent him a flowered shirt, photographers had a field day, soldiers brought in fans to keep him cool. Watching the lean Communist leaning easily on a windowsill, first-naming an Under Secretary, and running his delicate hands through the black curls of his 18-year-old son Romeo, an officer snapped: "You would think he was the head of state waiting to talk to another head of state...
Huntingtonism was seldom well received by anthropologists or by real-estate promoters of hot countries. In the Florida Anthropologist, Anthropology Professor Frederick R. Wulsin of Tufts (in cool Massachusetts) comes to the defense of the tropical and semitropical climates. It's not either the heat or the humidity, Dr. Wulsin says: it is over-dressing that robs tropical residents of their energy...
...Wulsin describes experiments, some of them for the Army, on how clothes hamper the body in keeping itself cool. They act as insulators, checking heat loss by radiation. More important, they create near the skin a layer of hot, moisture-saturated air. Sweat cannot evaporate until it has soaked through the clothing, and then its cooling effect is largely wasted. Dr. Wulsin ridicules the idea that Europeans in tropical climates should wear helmets and heavy clothing to keep from being felled by the tropical sun. The less clothing they wear, he says, the better off they...
...last week, at the sold-out concert at Chicago's Civic Opera House, celebrating the famed choir's soth anniversary, such a thing as a flat tone was unthinkable. The program, which ranged from Palestrina to Stravinsky, produced a fortissimo reaction from the music critics. "Cool, thin, silver tone . . . timeless patina," said the Tribune. Said Paulist O'Malley: "It was one of the finest concerts I've ever conducted...
...choir supports itself tidily with society weddings, big-name funerals and concert tours. Last week's anniversary concert netted a cool $9,000. The choir also furthers the special concern of the Paulists-to propagate the Roman Catholic faith among other Christians. Many non-Catholics are drawn to St. Mary's by the music, and several Protestant choir members have become converted...