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...Commons changed during last year's two elections, Roth's directory has grown increasingly useful to Parliament watchers. His only concession to propriety, however, has been to adjust his use of the King's English to avoid misunderstanding: "gay" politicians have been redescribed as "genial" or "jovial...
...Vice President's chair in the Cabinet Room and sat through a two-hour economic conference. Then he wandered down to the lobby of the West Wing, waited a while, and came back to the Oval Office, where he cooled his heels a little more, a comfortable and genial figure greeting the President's staff. When it was time for pictures of the Ford-Rockefeller meeting, the two men were near the President's desk, the President leaning back in his chair and the Vice President at the corner. They did not bother with the formal pose...
Power clashes are inevitable in so high-powered an atmosphere as the White House; eventually Rumsfeld could collide with Rockefeller-and that would be a spark-producing encounter. But Rumsfeld is more likely to run afoul of Bob Hartmann, Presidential Counsellor and chief speechwriter. Alternately genial and abrasive, Hartmann perfectly reflects his boss's Grand Rapids conservatism. In time, Jerry Ford may be forced to choose between his past politics as represented by Hartmann and the national outlook represented by Rockefeller and Rumsfeld...
...drawn from a repertory of more than 300 pieces, many by Composer Lewis, whose uncluttered keyboard probings set MJQ's style. Lewis etched an outline of Sigmund Romberg's Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise. One by one, cued only by instinct, his colleagues joined him: the genial Heath, eyes closed, his fingertips lightly brushing the strings, while Kay, the pulsemaker, fabricated a succinct beat ornamented by miniature percussive effects-rippling wind chimes. Jackson's keyboard work at the vibes, reminiscent of Art Tatum's quicksilver piano, provided the melodic keystone...
...genial, contemplative Van Allen, ingenuity in planning space missions is nothing new. It was the University of Iowa scientist who had the foresight to prepare the tiny, 5½-in.-wide Geiger counter and transmitter that rode the first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, into space in 1958 and provided the initial clues that the earth is surrounded by belts of charged particles trapped in its magnetic field...