Word: friendlier
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sideburns. His name mellowed with absence, and some people cast a friendlier eye on the new image: a clean-cut kid in khaki, his pelvis at parade rest. Last week ABC's Frank Sinatra Timex Show spent more than a quarter of a million dollars to welcome Elvis home and performed a highly useful service: it reminded the forgetful just how dreadful Elvis really...
There are some words, the researchers found, that workers do not like to hear at all. Corporation conjures up a "selfish" and "ruthless" image, although company gets a friendly reception. Piece rate irritates workers, but they like the term incentive pay; and free enterprise evokes friendlier feelings than capitalism. Workers are not emotionally affected by the word strike, but work stoppage is associated by them with "bad, harmful, and unfair" practices...
...underneath his sun-reddened complexion, joined President Frondizi at the picturesque (and safe) resort town of Llao Llao (pronounced Zhow Zhow) in the Andes, for two days of discussion and rest. As he got ready to fly on to Santiago and Montevideo this week, Ike could almost sense the friendlier feelings his trip had created, and most Latin Americans seemed to agree with the judgment of Brazil's Kubitschek: "I am fully convinced we are now entering a new phase of understanding and cooperation with our friends and allies, the North American nation...
...Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week made a daring, four-day, 35-appearance assault on Nixon Country-the Pacific Coast-and came out swinging. In California, heartland of the Nixon-for-President movement, Rocky got a few bruises, changed hardly a vote. His luck was better in the friendlier climate of Washington and Oregon (Oregon's crucial primary will be held next May). But wherever he went. Rockefeller left the strong impression of a slugger who is going to wage an all-out campaign for the nomination he wants...
...contrast with the low level of his prestige during the troubled days of 1958 (when he was more respected abroad than at home), the young King's comeback was spectacular. Ironically, he owes much of his new popularity to the fact that he has established friendlier relations with his old adversary, Gamal Abdel Nasser, who remains the hero of Arab nationalism, even if the enthusiasm of Jordanians for direct union with Egypt has waned. The border between Syria and Jordan, closed for weeks by Nasser's United Arab Republic, was ordered reopened by Cairo, and last week Hussein...