Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...table around which Producer Performer David Susskind assembles his Open End panelists each week is always amply stocked with refreshments-for Susskind is a genial host who wants everybody to be relaxed. Sometimes, indeed, the guests have become too relaxed. There was the memorable evening last winter when the London Observer's Patrick O'Donovan dissolved in an Irish mist; he caused such a stir with his groans, hiccups and toasts that Susskind had him removed from view during a hasty message from the sponsor. Then there was the night when good old reliable Brendan Behan cut loose...
...another, genial Prince Norodom Sihanouk has been boss of the green rice fields, blue lakes, brown, winding rivers of his native land ever since Cambodia got its independence from France in 1953. After 16 months as King of independent Cambodia, Sihanouk abdicated because "the true face of the people was hidden from me." He has been six times Premier and has six times resigned. Now, Prince Sihanouk is known as the Head of State, as a result of last year's national referendum in which he captured 99.97% of the votes...
Good Loser. Genial in defeat (he quickly made friends with three blondes in Zurich), Boun Oum might have given away still more points had not the Bolder Grand told the princes that they would have to get out to make room for tourists. That shifted the scene once again to the 14-nation conference on Laos in Geneva, where prospects were no more encouraging. The argument was mostly about helicopters (did or did not the I.C.C. need them to police the cease-fire?). Publicly, the U.S. promised to pull out its 300 military advisers from Laos if North Viet...
...three years' income, or $4,500,000, to election expenses if he is nominated for Vice President. In the hotel lobbies, smiling Puyat leaders reportedly passed out 100-peso bills ($50). Happy delegates carousing at the lavish Bayside nightclub had their checks picked up by Puyat's genial brother. At 3 in the morning, a Puyat lieutenant silenced the band and ordered the delegates back to their hotels to "wait for further instructions" for next day's convention at Manila's Coliseum. As rural delegates weaved out into the sultry night, an exhausted nightclub hostess said...
Although the medium has made him famous, Dr. Frank Baxter, 65, bald, genial lecturer on Shakespeare and science, had some scornful words for television. "The idiots who run TV ... think people are best pleased at the low, hypnotic and opiate level," he told his last Shakespeare class, as he prepared to retire from the University of Southern California. Said Baxter: "There is no law in America which deprives people of reading...