Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilson's most serious opposition seemed certain to come from the Labor Party's traditional power base, the trade unions. Frank Cousins, the chief of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,500,000 members), who only three weeks ago resigned from the Cabinet in protest against any official restraint on wages, vowed that he would support workers who were due for raises under previously agreed contracts. Other unions pledged to push for higher wages-freeze or no freeze...
...conceived the show in 1953, after a frustrating night of "flipping the dial on my radio and not finding anything worth listening to." Recalls Smith: "I don't usually let personal preferences enter into business decisions, so I guess this was an exception." He met with CBS President Frank Stanton, discovered that Stanton was "something of a night owl himself." CBS and American jointly formulated the music show. Its records were to be, in Smith's words, "on a high, not necessarily highbrow, level." The commercials were to be soft-sell, the disk jockeys positively pianissimo, and everything...
...quenchless vitality, it drinks up the golden decades like nectar at the banquet table of life. It is invisible because it defies chronology. It measures age not by a date on a calendar but by a dance of the mind. Just prior to last week's marriage of Frank Sinatra, 50, to Mia Farrow, 21, Mia's mother Maureen O'Sullivan, 55, was asked how she felt about the 29-year age discrepancy. Said she: "It means nothing. I know people who are antiques at 35 and others who can watusi...
Relief Pitcher Dick Hall is an amateur mathematician who on drizzly afternoons amuses himself trying to predict whether a game will be called off -by calculating the number of raindrops falling per second on one square foot of the field. Rightfielder Frank Robinson used to be known as "the meanest man in the National League," before he was traded to the Orioles by the Cincinnati Reds last winter. Now he is the meanest man in both leagues -with the possible exception of Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer (TIME cover, Sept...
Conflicting foreign policy aims, not ideological differences, precipitated the Sino-Soviet dispute, Frank Rendell of the M.I.T. Center for International Studies, said last night at a discussion sponsored by the Harvard chapter of Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy...