Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Final Chapter. Eccentric as he sometimes appeared, Ward was a cool, competent diplomat. Scholarly and hardworking, he mastered several Chinese and Mongolian dialects in addition to the Russian taught him by his Russian-born mother. Above all, in a series of posts in or on the borders of the Soviet world-Mukden, Tientsin, Moscow, Vladivostok, Teheran-he gathered a specialist's knowledge of two ominously interrelated subjects: China and Communism...
...Beck, 30, a Dutch pianist who is sometimes called "the Flying Dutchess.'' cannot tell a fifth from a fipple flute, but that does not keep her from bopping along on the cool side of the street and leaving the sunny side to Dixielanders. When Pia took off after a vocal chorus in English last week at the Tijuana, a Baltimore nightclub, listeners cried. "Hey, this chick's not from Europe-she's from Brooklyn...
Whether or not that happens, what of the prospects for desegregation? By determined and cool legal action, it can probably be enforced without violence over much of the South. It probably cannot be enforced in Mississippi, Georgia or South Carolina or in parts of other states as long as they retain their present very high proportion of Negroes...
...last week the curtain was lifted in Britain. Stan Kenton's 20-piece band played a concert in London's Albert Hall, where jampacked fans hungrily took in such Kenton specialties as Theme of Four Valves and 23° N= 82° W* Critical evaluation ranged from cool ("about 30% art, 70% commercial gloss") to enthusiastic ("at all times vital and alive"), and it seemed certain that Kenton would establish attendance records on his 35-concert tour of the British Isles. Under an agreement between the two unions, top British Bandleader Ted Heath will reciprocate with a tour...
From Karachi Dulles flew on to New Delhi, where he spent six hours with a cool Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and an hour with a hostile Indian press. Dulles was friendly but firm (see FOREIGN NEWS...