Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minute press conference-staged by the public relations firm of Hill & Knowltoa and telecast live from Manhattan's' Plaza Hotel - Svetlana maintained a sweet Slavic charm and a rosy-cheeked, auburn-haired innocence, despite her first exposure to a free press and although one reporter was frisked by private detectives on the way in. She also displayed a dedication to liberty that stood in sharp if glossy contrast to her family background. More surprising was her spirited defense of her father-a demonstration that even a dictator with the blood of some 9,000,000 kulaks and political...
Progress & Problems. Under the firm rule of Park's Democratic Republican Party, Korea is emerging from its long years of isolation (TIME, March 10). Park has sent 46,000 troops to Viet Nam, promoted regional economic cooperation among the non-Communist Asian Pacific nations and normalized relations with Japan-a move that has proved worth $800 million in grants and credits. Park's five-year development plan has sharply expanded foreign and domestic investment and, for the first time, started Korea on the road toward self-sufficiency. In the past five years, more than 3,600 new factories...
Plainclothesmen may soon be armed with a new model that telescopes to fit into the pocket, extends to full, firm length at a flick. General Ordnance even offers a plastic billy that does double duty: the company's new incapacitating spray can be shot out of the handle...
...violently slapped his own face. Once, dissatisfied with the NBC Orchestra's performance of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, he cried, "I was stupid! You were stupid! Only Beethoven was not stupid." Indeed, the music itself was what mattered most to him. All of his talents-his firm beat, fantastic ear, uncanny sense of style and structure, and even his rages-were marshaled toward a faithful re-creation of the composer's intention. During a rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony, the NBC musicians made a ritard that was not marked in the score but was traditional...
Planners are hoping for $8 million under the recent Kennedy-Javits amendment to the Economic Opportunity Act; it provides incentives to businesses which set up on-the-job training programs. Even without that money, a small metal-working firm, providing 30 or 40 jobs, has agreed to locate in the neighborhood, and five other companies of about that size are considering the idea...