Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...littlest Ford Continental, Alessandro Ford Uzielli, 18 months, woggled into international view for the first time at Paris' Orly Airport in the velvety clutches of Mother Anne Ford Uzielli, 25, and Aunt Charlotte Ford Niarchos, 27. Tiny Alex roundly ignored eager photographers, but perked up later at Grandma's house: Mme. Sybil Billotte's 14-room estate in suburban Senlis. The tyke and his doting entourage (including nanny, two bodyguards and chauffeur) then motored to Brussels, where he and Auntie Charlotte hopped a plane to New York, the last leg of his jet-set journey...
...officers of the Student's International Meditation Society, which is Maharishi's subsidiary for the spread of his ideas in universities, the "dropouts" officially don't exist. Spokesmen like Jerry Jarvis, head of SIMS's American branch, soothe their eager audiences with repeated assurances that meditation works for everyone, that nothing can go seriously wrong. In fact, every novice must attend lectures given on the three consecutive nights after his initiation, which supposedly are "advance instruction," allowing one to "refine" his technique. In fact, these "lectures" were question-and-answer periods, and gave me my first feelings of uneasiness about...
...animal society is essentially hierarchal, says Hediger, humans who face dangerous creatures in their cages should assume a super-alpha status-in other words, a rank above that of the topmost animal. If he fails to assert such authority, the zookeeper risks finding the animals as impudent, mischievous and eager to take advantage of any sign of weakness as school children with an unsure and inexperienced teacher. And the animals' pranks, Hediger adds dryly, can produce far more painful consequences...
Walter Lippmann came out of semi-retirement to be there. Most major U.S. newspapers were represented. Even Women's Wear Daily was on the scene, pursuing North Vietnamese female delegates for fashion comments. Surveying the crush of eager reporters, U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman had only one comment: "Never have so many come so far for so little...
...report concedes that Harvard's "capacity to attract students of high quality," is crucial to attracting faculty, it goes no further. It does not consider how the attractiveness of Harvard to Faculty might change if standards of recruitment altered--specifically if more emphasis were placed on getting men eager and able to teach...