Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ethics of asphalt-jungle cats, they live in "the land of no holds barred"-a grey, womanless room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm), is a dapper spiv of a pimp with a lively, corrupt intelligence. Joey (Terence Rigby), the younger, is a dub of a prizefighter, a would-be champion with a chimpanzee brain...
Sato's key opponent for the post is former Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, 69, a dapper industrialist-idealist who is known as "the silk handkerchief" for his dilettantist ways. Running against Sato for the leadership in 1964, Fujiyama won only 72 votes of 476 cast. In this week's election, he hopes to crystallize latent discontent within the party and win 150 votes or more; another faction has already decided to cast its 70 votes neither for Sato nor for Fujiyama but for its own leader. Together, those defections might cause trouble for Sato in next year...
...Liberian capital of Monrovia, Flight 150 took on a party of dapper, dark-suited Guineans - Foreign Minister Louis Beavogui, three aides and 15 "students" bound for a conference of African foreign ministers in Ethiopia. Apparently they were not aware that an interim stop would put them down briefly at Accra, capital of Ghana. Otherwise, they might have traveled another route. After all, since last February, when Kwame Nkrumah was ousted by a military coup and took refuge in Guinea, the two nations have been the bitterest of enemies...
Died. Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr., 80, New York's official city greeter from 1954 to 1965, a suave and dapper onetime mining engineer, business executive and U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1944-47), Guatemala (1948-51) and Switzerland (1951-53), who in 1954 was appointed "Chairman of the Mayor's Reception Committee of New York City," for the next twelve years glad-handed just about everyone, official or not, from hereditary kings to beauty queens and lumberjacks; in Manhattan...
...into the oval office one day recently strutted a dapper dandy in brownish-grey toupee, cake makeup, Kings Man cologne, suede-and-'gator shoes, jeweled cuff links in the shape of a Jewish Torah, and a wristwatch with the letters of his name in place of the numerals. The watch spelled GEORGE JESSEL. The old vaudevillian briskly filled the President in on the war, assured him that he would waste no time in telling the world about the great job the boys were doing out there, and perhaps even winked a few funny lines at L.B.J. It was darn...