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...unfortunate public nickname in years. But what kind of name has Lady Bird made for herself? Reaction to her so far has been politely cool. Says Maggie Daly, columnist for Chicago's American: "She looks like every well-dressed woman of means. She does not have any special flair." Observes Françoise Giroud, co-editor of Paris' L'Express: "Lady Bird is the sort of person quí ne provoque pas les sentiments-she does not evoke feelings. Who cares about a grey lady bird?" And in London, a BBC executive snorted...
...have worked as a team for less than a year, sleuthing seems to come naturally to them, and with reason. Before joining Stern in 1963, rotund, nervous Münch was one of Germany's most popular writers of whodunits; rugged, imperturbable Heggemann has a natural flair for adventure, once crossed the Alps in a balloon. Stern Editor Henri Nannen (TIME, Jan. 25, 1960) put the pair on the case as soon as he learned of Zech-Nenntwich's escape...
...Flair Under the Sea. Last week, giving further evidence of its imagination, Lockheed revealed plans for a bullet-shaped, delta-winged rocket plane that by 1975 may be carrying ten passengers and a crew of two on regular trips between earth and an orbiting space station. Like the U2, the A11 and the RS-71, the rocket plane is being developed in Lockheed's famous "Skunk Works," presided over by Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson, the company's engineering genius...
...confined to the air, Lockheed's flair is currently being applied to projects on land and under the sea. Pushed to spread out and diversify by Chairman Courtlandt Gross, company engineers are building a $12 million dam in Wyoming, have developed a monorail system to relieve weary pedestrians at large airports and shopping centers, and are designing shipping containers that can be used interchangeably in truck, rail, sea and air transport. Lockheed is also working on a 300-ton hydrofoil vessel for the Navy, designing a shell-shaped undersea workboat that will carry a crew around the ocean floor...
...show that might be notably lacking in drama. There will, of course, be a few sticky chores falling to the chairman of the Credentials Com mittee. For that post Johnson wisely picked Pennsylvania's former Governor David L. Lawrence, 75, a longtime, party pro who has a flair for hammering out a slick, smooth compromise...