Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...period, which is in many ways the most interesting section on the program. Freed from the confines of an artificial, pre-arranged scheme of notes, the ringers are enabled to express themselves directly, each one following his natural and spontaneous whim, without the constraining necessity of noticing what his fellow-ringers are doing. The bells are without doubt an ideal medium for this kind of improvisation, providing an immediacy of response and variety of expression unsurpassable on any instrument. The popularity of these sections testify to the sensitivity and unerring rhythmic awareness of the ringers...
...talker (but speaks little English), likes dancing, cooking Armenian dishes and horseback riding, is more amiable-or at least more ingratiating -than most Soviet chieftains. After three decades as a foreign trade specialist, and numerous trips abroad, he is also more knowledgeable about the West than most of his fellow commissars. "Unlike the others," a veteran Western diplomat says of Mikoyan, "he has a rational image of the U.S." Mikoyan has four children, numerous grandchildren. His brother Artem is one of the U.S.S.R.'s top airplane designers (the MI in MIG stands for Mikoyan...
...members of the New York police department.* Said Teamster Henry Feinstein, 53, who holds down an $8,500-a-year city job as supervisor of transportation in Manhattan: Within a fortnight he would throw pickets around police headquarters, police depots and supply stations. Hoped-for result: fellow Teamsters would refuse to deliver police supplies, and-as Feinstein put it-Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy (TIME, July 7) would "get a taste of Teamster economic force and pressure. The commissioner," said Feinstein, with considerable relish, "will freeze in his office...
...were out of town. To the royal family, "Dickie" Mountbatten is a favorite blood relation (he is both Elizabeth's cousin and Philip's uncle); to Britain's political leaders, who keep advancing him, he is a diplomat-sailor with charm, foresight and savvy; to his fellow officers he is courageous and capable; to the newspaper-reading public he is part hero, part legend, handsome and dashing. But to some diehard Tories, Mountbatten is a bad word...
...also advance the argument that in a year when House Republicans are in so great a minority, the only tactics that will earn the Party any sort of national respect are those of compromise, which Martin had so perfected. As Martin said Tuesday, "You don't give the other fellow a crack on the jaw... when he has more votes." Halleck was elected as the jaw-cracking type...