Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CONGRESS NEEDS HELP (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A report based on a study by a management-consultant firm that measured the operating methods of Congress against the best management practices in private industry. David Brinkley tells the sad results...
Another New York fop? Maybe. But the accent is still there (he says the hell with it, instead of the hell with it) and his off-stage manner is slow but concise, always searching for the right word: unhip, unfunny, but firm. The pudgy, chinless, spoiled-boy face creases slightly, the lower lip sucks in, and then Wolfe speaks--rephrasing himself once or twice in case you didn't get it the first time around...
...DRUMMING-UP-BUSINESS DEPART MENT. "We do no soliciting," insisted the Colonel. But "quoting some canon of ethics," he declared that "it is not improper to call on a person when warranted by personal relations." As a result, the D.U.B.D. taught firm members "the need for knowing as many people as possible, particularly hospital managers, cashiers, nurses, interns, residents, practicing physicians, policemen, preachers and fortune tellers...
...church's rule against married clergy. Readers also provide most of the items for "Cry Pax!", a weekly column noting with deadpan wit the latest in churchly foibles-such as that the movie Rotten to the Core was approved by the Legion of Decency, or that a Brooklyn firm sold costumes modeled after the garb of priests, bishops and nuns for trick-or-treating children to wear in celebration of "the religious meaning" of Halloween...
...convictions about foreign aid would seem to be those of a crusading idealist were it not for the English sensibility she injects in every thought. Although she has a firm grasp on economic realities, her feelings are largely visionary. "I mean," she said, "we give billions for a dubious defense and billions more for the moon but almost nothing for the world we have now, which is the only one we have, isn't' it? Of course a lot of disturbing things happen with foreign aid, but you don't scrap a whole program when one rocket blows...