Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haven't had much to do," said the old gentleman. "But then I haven't had many people to help me." Former Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey, 76, who once gave orders to a staff of thousands and controlled the futures of millions of potential draftees, now bosses a single secretary and drafts memos as a presidential "adviser." "I don't know if anybody reads them or not," he admits...
Dean May and Harvard Chief of Police Robert Tonis both say they have never been contacted by either state or local authorities for information about drug users or peddlers at Harvard. But May denied that Harvard and Cambridge have a "gentleman's agreement" about drugs...
Souvanna Phouma, 68, a nephew of Laos' longtime (1904-1959) King Sisavang Vong, lacks Sihanouk's brash style Nonetheless, he performs with skill. A cultivated, retiring figure who looks and acts like a country gentleman, Souvanna has four times taken on the unenviable job of leading a government that is split between the Communist left, Neutralist middle and Royalist right...
...yards ahead. "Come fall," Flaar shouts, "when everybody is going down to the grain elevators, you get lots of guys racing you to a crossing." He tugs on the whistle and sounds a series of short toots and long wails. "That's my hello to an old gentleman in his 80s who lives back there. His relatives say it gives his morale a big boost...
BLOOD TINGLING. While you recuperate in the sauna bath, a gentleman technician sprinkles the heated rocks with Russian pine oil and "a dash of eucalyptus for the inhalation." Then it's on to the Swiss shower, a kind of liquefied Iron Maiden. You stand surrounded by a firing squad of nozzles and whooosh!-needle-like jetsprays of chilling water riddle you from 16 different directions. "That," says a gentleman technician, helping you into a gold terry-cloth toga, "ought to get the old blood circulating...