Word: demeanors
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Fischer's demands and demeanor did not sit well with the Russians or the chess community. Tass, the Soviet news agency, complained about the "disgusting spirit of gain that Fischer carries around with him. It is characteristic that his spokesmen are lawyers and not chess players. Wherever Fischer is, money ranks first, pushing aside all sporting motives." Said The Netherlands' Max Euwe, former world chess champion (1935-37) and the president of the Fédération des Echecs (F.I.D.E.), the world governing body of chess: "I don't like Mr. Fischer in our chess world...
These realizations have had their effect on Bok. There have been moments when his demeanor has reflected his frustration: 15 hours into the PALC occupation of Mass Hall, he paced impatiently on the tenth floor of Holyoke Center, perceptibly worn and distraught...
Jesus Christ. Wooden is inclined to minimize the U.C.L.A. recruiting program. He leaves most of it to his assistants and likes to point out that they concentrate on local California boys. But others note that Wooden's saintly demeanor can be formidable in a favored prospect's home. Says one rival coach: "We thought we had a kid sewed up, but then Jesus Christ walked in. The kids' parents about fell over. How can you recruit against that...
Died. Edwin Weisl, 74. longtime confidant of Lyndon Johnson; of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles, Calif. An up-from-the-tenements Wall Street lawyer with an earthy demeanor, Weisl first met Johnson at the urging of F.D.R.. who described the lanky Texan as "a live Congressman [with] a fine future ahead of him." Thereafter Weisl helped fulfill Roosevelt's prophecy, advising the Texas Democrat on politics both foreign and domestic for more than 30 years. In 1964, Weisl became Democratic national committeeman from New York, and was considered L.B.J.'s envoy to the state party...
Topless B.B. Signora Tattilo, who has the sleek, confident demeanor of a successful public relations woman, was once a successful public relations woman. In 1965 she and her husband, now separated, broke into publishing with a weekly for children called Big. A year later they started Men, a vulgar weekly collection on newsprint of photographs of nude women often purchased from Scandinavia-or provided by the agents of Italian starlets. Playmen was started in 1967, and looked enough like Playboy, which was then banned in Italy, to attract buyers. Except for the European style of its nudes and a blessed...