Word: feeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times in the past year. Last week, as the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division battled North Vietnamese regulars in the fiercest, costliest fighting of the war (see THE WORLD), the issue came up again-this time with an implication that the Administration had summarily rejected a so-called "peace feeler" from Hanoi last year...
...feeler from Cefis was snapped up by Esso, which ranks third in Britain and was delighted to add AGIP to its 8,000-station chain. Esso agreed to pay $11 million for the chain, a sum that gave ENI a modest overall profit on its investment and last week earned Cefis the compliments of Italian businessmen for consummating un buonissimo affare. Besides removing one of Esso's competitors and restoring the chain to private enterprise, the deal also gives Esso precious locations that it can utilize in its battle with leading British Petroleum and Shell...
...Washington, the wary reaction was that Castro might be playing another of his vicious little games-possibly putting out another ransom feeler, as he did with the Bay of Pigs prisoners, or possibly laying a trap to lure anti-Castro Cubans into exposing themselves. The U.S. called the offer "vague and ambiguous," said that Castro ought to use diplomatic channels for his offer, then later announced that it would accept any and all refugees if Castro was really serious about it. President Johnson even indicated that he would ask Congress for a $12.6 million appropriation to help get the program...
...this season, without even a feeler to Vegas, Williams has whirled past more fairgrounds than Astronauts Cooper and Conrad ever did. In fact, the state-fair circuit has become an unpublicized gold mine of show business. Not for everyone. The star of the fair circuit must be folksy, decent, no-putting-on-airs, and never, never step out of character. Williams is the circuit's ideal singer, Tennessee Ernie Ford its ideal comic, Liberace its favorite pianist, Lawrence Welk its ideal bandleader...
Richard Burton has long insisted that he would rather be a writer than an actor. Last summer, Condé Nast's Glamour magazine sent him a timid feeler asking if he might like to write a story for the Christmas issue. The idea appealed to Burton's repressed ambition, and he set to work in longhand. The result, which will next month become his first published short story, is anything but an embarrassment. It is worth every farthing he was paid for it. "He gets $500," says Glamour's Feature Editor Marilyn Mercer, "which is a very...