Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls are off by themselves trying to run a chicken farm in Canada with a lot of snow and icicles. Jill (Dennis) is a fidgety fuss-budget with a scrambled face and a psyche to match. March (Anne Heywood) is cool, competent and controlled-the one who makes the decisions and mends the fences and blasts away with a shotgun at the red fox who regularly raids the chicken yard. Into this twitchy domesticity comes Paul (Keir Dullea), a merchant seaman on leave who has arrived to visit his grandfather, the deceased owner of the farm. A take-over type...
...future of U.S. railroading, and so auspicious is the outlook for the Penn Central merger, that Stuart Saunders last week relaxed his customary aggressiveness. "I have heard it said that a long courtship makes for a happy marriage," said Saunders, as he looked back over the years of fuss and frustration, "and I hope that it is true, for it will surely mean eternal bliss for the Penn Central." Bliss, perhaps. But with Saunders running things, certainly not tranquillity. Honoring Saunders last week with its annual Benjamin Franklin award, Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club summed up the situation pretty...
...with a picture of Wilson, Mrs. Wilson and his personal political secretary, Mrs. Marcia Williams. Miss Lewis wrote that "during the Profumo scandal, the Tories' Quintin Hogg nearly brought the House down when he tried to defend Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, saying he didn't understand the fuss about Profumo's private life, since there were 'adulterers on the Opposition front bench.' That was the closest anyone has come in public to making an extraprofessional link between Mrs. Williams and her boss, though the snide cracks have been going around again lately...
Just as the Mirror's attack was extraordinary, so was Brown's response. In a rebuttal on BBC-TV, a totally unrepentant Brown asked, in effect: What was all the fuss about? "I'm not prelending that I don't drink alcohol," he said. "I work jolly hard, many hours a day, and I don't do other things that people might frown on. If you want a Foreign Secretary who does not do anything wrong, I am not the guy you want-and I reckon the fellow you get will not be a very...
...since Voltaire came to town in 1758 to escape persecution in Geneva has the French border village of Ferney-subsequently renamed Ferney-Voltaire-seen so much excitement. The current fuss is being caused by another refugee from Geneva, controversial Bernard Cornfeld, 40, an American expatriate who has built his eleven-year-old Investors Overseas Services into the largest mutual-fund sales organization outside the U.S. When Bernie Cornfeld decided to move his Swiss-based I.O.S. across the border eight months ago, wags mindful of the 18th century precedent started referring to the town as "Bernie-Voltaire...