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Personality: Reticent, honest, quick-witted, forthright and cool, he is smallish (5 ft. 7½ in.), a conservative dresser and the possessor of a deep bass voice and a dry, often penetrating wit. Unostentatious, he drives to his Pittsburgh office from his home in Sewickley, Pa. in a 1954 two-door Ford, likes to watch baseball games. Hobbies: golf, fishing and photographing his grandchildren. Bargainer Stephens' definition of the requirements of his job: "To be a skilled negotiator takes character, integrity, quick wit, a keen mind, the ability to speak as the moment requires−with humor, sincerity, pathos...
...Nixon's serpentine behavior, Eisenhower, despite his illness, appears a most creative leader. This appears in his proposals for the segregation problem--moderate, but forceful, action and the establishment of bi-racial commissions. Eisenhower's stands, both foreign and domestic (with the exception of the farm bill), have been forthright and sensible. In light of his own worth and the incompetence of his immediate subordinates, the President's recurring illness is most distressing to a comparatively leaderless nation...
...sentiments expressed in hillbilly music are far from subtle, but they are forthright ("I've been workin' hard the whole week long/But I'm gonna have some wine, women and song"), candid ("If she's a honkytonk angel, I'm the devil that made her that way"), sincere ("I mean a lot to my Mom and Pop/I just hope I mean somethin...
Between handshakings he delivered nearly a dozen speeches, including one that contained a forthright statement on school desegregation. Said he: "If I am elected, it will be my duty to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and the Supreme Court decision is the law of the land ... You know and I know it's ridiculous to say that a Supreme Court decision is unconstitutional...
...Vienna broadcasts under his arm. Six of the programs were of Beethoven sonatas; the other six were of his own jazz combo playing his compositions and arrangements. U.S. jazz experts listened, found his tunes to be pretty as pops-fine fodder for jazz improvisations-and his arrangements forthright and thoroughly disciplined. They proclaimed Gulda's jazz some of the best they had ever heard. The upshot: Pianist Gulda was booked for a two-week engagement in June in Manhattan's jazz den, Birdland, and the Newport Jazz Festival (July...