Word: courteousness
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...talent scouts as an able, experienced administrator who might some day fill a job for President Kennedy. Also like McCone, he is a Republican, which may help fend off partisan objections to actions taken by an agency new to the ways of Washington. Born in New Jersey, courteous, methodical Bill Foster studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, piloted "Flying Jennies" as a combat instructor during World War I, then spent 24 years with Long Island's Pressed & Welded Steel Products...
...Advocate having received so courteous a review in the CRIMSON, I hope that I shall not seem any the less courteous in writing to correct an error of fact, or perhaps of interpretation, that appeared at the end of Mr. Sokolov's article...
...Democrat carefully cased the situation before declaring war on the city-county machine-a fight for which Morrilton's other weekly, the Headlight (circ. 1,600), had no stomach at all. When Democrat editorials began hammering at Hawkins and his gang, Headlight Editor Earle Haynes maintained the courteous silence of a man who has been "selected" three times: once as city recorder, once as alderman, most recently as Morrilton mayor (to replace the incumbent, who resigned because of ill health...
Hypnotic Gas. A quiet, secretive, self-educated, 39-year-old intellectual who is calm and courteous on the set and an utter mystery to his friends, Resnais was born in Vannes, the son of a Breton pharmacist. He made his first motion picture, called Adventures of Fantomas, when he was 13, using 8-mm. film and proceeding on the lovely green theory that if he concentrated on closeups his child actors would look adult...
Just Talking. Goodwin denied having had anything more than a few chance minutes of conversation at a party. "We talked perhaps 20 minutes." he said, "no longer, with interruptions for autographs-from him, not from me." Che surprisingly agreed. He told an interviewer that it was a "short, courteous and cold meeting, and was not important." But Che used the Goodwin talks as a wedge to wangle himself a secret appointment with Argentine President Arturo Frondizi. He then flew off to make the same coexistence offer in Buenos Aires...