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...point where they will make themselves heard in "a consuming fire or a flood of light." And despite jubilant receptions for President Eisenhower when he visited in 1960 and for President Kennedy in 1962, Latin America's feelings toward the U.S. are often far from cordial...
...students again massed near the embassy, he closed the building (for "repairs" to damaged furniture), raised no objection as police herded the angry Ghanaians away. Elliot tried to laugh off the melee, dismissed talk of widespread bias against students as nothing but "rumors." Relations with Soviet students are cordial, he insisted. "But it's natural to take a punch at each other...
Friendly New Man. One crucial factor in the year-end attitude toward 1964 is the confidence that businessmen seem to have in the new man in the White House. So far, President Johnson has won a reception from businessmen that is cordial beyond anything lately experienced by a Democratic President. In homey speeches to them at White House meetings and in personal phone calls to such executives as A. T. & T. Chairman Frederick R. Kappel and New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston, Johnson has appeared a friendly, conservative Chief Executive who understands business. It is not unusual to hear...
Flushed by their cordial reception at the local level, some giveaways have plunged all the way into fulltime newspapering. In Omaha four shopping guides published by David Blacker converted to paid newspaper weeklies beginning in 1958. To Slacker's satisfaction, all but 20,000 of his 60,000 readers submitted to a levy of a nickel; to lis greater satisfaction, all but a handful of those stayed aboard last month when he raised the price to a dime. Although Blacker's papers now carry syndicated columnists, his news approach has remained steadfastly local...
...makes the beds, empties the clothes hampers, and runs off brobdingnagian batches of tomato ketchup in the basement. When she gets an offer to appear on a television commercial praising Happy Soap for $332, Day spends a day before the mirror practicing different ways (surprised, sultry, sincere, brisk, cordial) to say "Hi, there, I'm Beverly Boyer and I'm a housewife . . ." Her winsome incompetence melts the heart of the Happy Soap king, who signs her to an $80,000 contract as his new Happy Girl...