Word: friendlier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afford to shop in regular stores, but they have discovered that secondhand can be chic. Says one thrift-shop regular: "My husband is a doctor and we have a maid, so obviously I am not forced to buy in thrift shops. I find it fun. The atmosphere is much friendlier. Everybody is in it together." Mrs. Lee Campbell, who runs Fig Leaf in Arlington, Texas, agrees. "They're bringing in their friends now," she says. "Once, they may not have wanted anyone to know exactly where they found the bargain." Ruth Pollitz, a volunteer salesclerk at the Thrift House...
...prosecutor. However balanced investigation by Archibald Cox '34 may have been, the idea of a Kennedy Democrat who filled his top four investigative posts with fellow Kennedy Democrats could not have been pleasing to the administration. Nixon decided over the weekend that a bi-partisan House inquiry and a friendlier judicial arrangement would be preferable to Archibald Cox and his staff of 80 crack lawyers examining all the president's activities and papers. If Congress tries to appoint a new special prosecutor, the president and the Republicans will be in a position to secure guarantees that the new attorneys...
Pierre Elliott Trudeau will arrive in China on October 10 for a week-long state visit, with the usual wining, dining and sightseeing. That is a considerably friendlier prospect than the Prime Minister has been facing back home in Canada...
Both correspondents found that the many East Germans they interviewed outside Berlin were friendlier-and far more talkative-than the uptight "press officers" in the capital. "Sometimes it was difficult to break away from their exemplary hospitality," says Nelan, who endured a four-hour tour of an alloy steel mill. Rademaekers met with more warmth than he had bargained for. "A heat wave was sweeping across East Germany," he complains, "and every window seemed locked up for the winter...
...TIME, T.S. Matthews, a friend and Princeton classmate of Adlai Stevenson, saw things differently. Matthews revised a staunchly Republican writer's first draft of a Stevenson cover story. The revision, says Elson, was "not very good and obviously battle-scarred." It was also inconsistent with an earlier and friendlier Stevenson cover, on the question of the Governor's relations with the Cook County machine. Luce told Matthews to stand aside from the editing of an Eisenhower cover story, at which point, says Elson, Matthews decided to resign. He did so the following year...