Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contact lenses with which he has previously disguised his hyperopia for the benefit of the TV audience. As he gazed at the "people eater," the combination close-up camera and teleprompter that all but obscures the President from his audience, he looked for all the world like a genial Foxy Grandpa...
...Djakarta, his first ambassadorial assignment, he replaces genial Howard P. Jones, whose seven years of effort to win over Sukarno with tolerant understanding did not deter the Bung from continuing to heap contempt and ridicule on the U.S. Whether a blunter approach will bear fruit is anyone's guess. The U.S. sympathizes with Malaysia, but would like to cling to some friendly ties with Indonesia, however tenuous. Sukarno may be angry at the latest U.S. loan to Malaysia for military equipment, but the Malaysians of late have been equally miffed by the proposed sale of $4,000,000 worth...
Though the genial, toddy-swigging Ceylonese love political oratory and revel in elections, they are not very good at issuing a mandate. Last week's election was no exception. In the voting for 151 parliamentary seats, Madame's Freedom Party took a bad beating. Though carrying her own constituency, she and her Marxist allies could muster only 55 seats. Dudley Senanayake's U.N.P. captured 66 seats, an impressive advance but still not enough to form either a majority or a government...
Died. Henry H. Ford, 52, U.S. Consul General in Frankfurt, Germany, no kin to the Detroit Fords but nonetheless a well-known name to Germans as the genial, efficient boss of the U.S.'s biggest consulate anywhere (500 employees), contributing strongly to rising commercial and cultural relations; of a fractured skull sustained in a car accident near Limburg, Germany...
...only say with all possible respect that if the late President really was as he is here presented-so dedicated a public servant, so faithful a husband and devoted a father, so witty, learned, and profound an orator, writer, and thinker, so genial a friend, prayerful a Christian, and enlightened a statesman-he is better off in Heaven, where, according to an electoral oration in Ohio by Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey, we may now confidently assume...