Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rare Breed is all conventional outdoor fun, enlivened with fist fights, rugged scenery, and the green-eyed beauty of Maureen O'Hara, who makes Technicolor seem a necessity. But the 4-H sex appeal of this genial western centers principally upon a white-faced bull named Vindicator. A hornless Hereford, he arrives in America well before the turn of the century, chaperoned by Maureen and plucky Juliet Mills as a well-bred English mother and daughter with some eccentric ideas about animal husbandry. Their hefty British bull is just the thing, they swear, to beef up the herds...
Thai was always quite genial and smiled incessantly. In particular, he enjoyed talking about the economic progress which South Vietnam has experienced despite the war. When asked to elaborate, he spoke of the significant build-up of urban light industries. Vietnam's three spinning mills have increased from 60,000 spindles in 1960 to 100,000 today. Thai also cited the development of paper factories, chemical and cement complexes, and a coal mine which has been started in the middle of a Communist-dominated area. These industries are examples of what Thai calls "more active participation of the people...
...Gaulle's No. 1 collaborator. Few people in Paris think that he can unseat Pompidou as De Gaulle's choice for President chiefly because the acerbic, colorless Debré has proved himself virtually unelectable. What may emerge, Elysee theologians believe, is a kind of duumvirate, with the genial Pompidou as a winning President to succeed De Gaulle-and the dour Debré as tough, party-lining Premier...
Died. Albert Thomas, 67, Democratic Congressman from Texas' Eighth District (Houston) since 1937, a gentle, genial but nonetheless powerful legislator who, as head since 1949 of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Independent Agencies (NASA, AEC, etc.), earned a reputation among some agency chiefs as the budget-snipping leader of "the Thomas Obstacle Course" and among Houstonians as the provider of such plums as its $170 million Manned Spacecraft Center; of cancer; in Washington...
Died. Hedda Hopper, 75, Hollywood's genial scold; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles (see SHOW BUSINESS...