Word: easygoingness
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DIED. WALT ROSTOW, 86, easygoing yet hawkish adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson whose unfailing optimism about U.S. involvement in Vietnam helped propel the war; in Austin, Texas. The son of a Socialist, he coined Kennedy's campaign slogan, Let's Get This Country Moving Again. The onetime M.I.T. economics...
DIED. HERB RITTS, 50, sweetly easygoing celebrity photographer whose ability to make famous subjects comfortable helped him capture and define the high-octane glamour and narcissism of the 1980s; of complications from pneumonia; in Los Angeles. A onetime furniture salesman who made his name with an impromptu late-1970s photo...
The outgoing president concluded her speech by saying the council should remain easygoing.
DIED. GEORGE CHRISTIAN, 75, last press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson; of lung cancer; in Austin, Texas. Johnson called Christian--a loyal, easygoing fellow Texan--"unflappable George," while others labeled him a yes-man. Still, he won admiration for his evenhanded treatment of reporters, whether friend or foe.
DIED. JAMES COBURN, 74, craggy, slyly intelligent Hollywood tough guy whose memorable villains were made creepier by his deep, satanic laugh and toothy, knowing grin; of a heart attack; at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. Coburn was famous for playing macho sidekicks in Westerns and action films, memorably as...