Word: demeanors
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...back-room Man Friday to three Presidents, Clark Clifford's demeanor has always been as discreet and distinctive as the double-breasted suits he continued to wear all through the two-button era. Last week, during his first center-stage performance as a Cabinet officer-designate, a 2½-hour appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he left the strong impression that Robert S. McNamara's succes sor as Secretary of Defense will be flexible in tactics but firm in strategy...
...weird sisters. She is marvelous. Tart as some of her own quince jam and so tiny that she is virtually two-dimensional, Miss Meglathery bustles self-containedly about the stage amid heavy traffic of corpses, cops, criminals, and intended victims. Her voice is crystal clear, her demeanor is perfect and her timing is unfailingly accurate...
Researcher Sandra Burton started her reporting by sending a note to every single person on the TIME editorial staff requesting suggestions, experiences and opinions, carefully promising to "keep confidences." Then she put on her most searching demeanor and went prowling through the haunts of New York singles, posing as a lonely girl looking for a date. On a "Singles Weekend" at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills, her most gamesmanlike experience was with a young liquor distributor who, to build his image as a swinging single, had his room stocked with a case of champagne...
...woman of acceptable and average feminine demeanor, I must take issue with those who feel that a woman has no business with a loaded gun. I have lived with guns all my life and, although I do not care to hunt or kill, good marksmanship has its own rewards. A woman untrained in the use of guns, and afraid of them as well, is possibly more lethal to those she tries to protect than any adversary she might face...
Western businessmen trying to set up subsidiaries in Japan are sometimes reminded of the welcome that Commodore Perry got there in 1853. "Our policy," whispered one wary Japanese at the time, "shall be to evade any definite answer to their requests, while at the same time maintaining a peaceful demeanor." For years, the U.S. and other nations have urged Japan to relax restrictions on foreign investments; for years, the Japanese demurred on grounds that their struggling industries would fall to outside control...