Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crossed the stage. You saw how completely the woman and her tiny hopes were crushed. Whenever she spoke, she started out eagerly, then collapsed from fear of being reprimanded. Still, she perched on her chair awaiting the split second in a conversation that would be hers to fill...
When rumors began circulating last month that McCarthy might contest the President in the Massachusetts primary, anti-Johnson forces in the state were enthusiastic about the prospect. But the politically astute among these were concerned that McCarthy might prove to be a "cream-puff." They had had their fill of educational campaigns with the 1962 Senate bid of H. Stuart Hughes, who rallied a whopping 2.4 per cent of the Massachusetts electorate to his cause...
Finding men able to fill the top jobs may turn out to be the party's biggest problem. The system tends to elevate men of restricted vision, the technocrats and the apparatchik! (party career men), and to submerge and frustrate the more brilliant and innovative thinkers. "The dichotomy," says State Department Kremlinologist Zbigniew Brzezinski, "is between a mediocre public leadership and an increasingly talented society." Just as they have turned against ideology, the brighter young Russians are now reluctant to go in for a party career. In an otherwise routine and un interesting anniversary speech last week, Brezhnev went...
Wary of controversy, most of the 50 franchised department stores across the country are keeping Little Brother under wraps. Manhattan's Bloomingdale's doesn't stock the doll, will fill mail orders only. Denver's MayD & F and Cleveland's Higbee's have taken the doll off display, although so many customers have come in asking for it that both stores have had to reorder. With various pediatricians and child psychologists coming to the defense of Little Brother as a perfectly natural play doll "unless adult reaction makes it unnatural play," Creative Playthings...
...subject is the Civil Service. The permanence of government employees, guaranteed by the Constitution, has been suspended. The future of 200,000 civil servants will be determined on an indivdual basis by special committees. Heavy emphasis will be placed on a questionnaire that all civil servants have had to fill out. This questionnaire is so incredible, that the government made special efforts to prevent its publication. It is marked "Top Secret," and a single copy was issued to each employee, to be filled out on the spot. When I saw a copy in the United States, I could understand...