Word: glad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last-Minute Call. The following morning, Pompidou telephoned Bernard Tricot, De Gaulle's top administrative aide, at the Elysée. If De Gaulle wanted him to stay, he would be glad to, said Pompidou. His only conditions were that he be given a say in drafting the participation bill and a free hand in running the National Assembly. Beyond that, all he wanted was a little well-earned rest -perhaps a two-week vacation. Tricot rang back after noon with a message from De Gaulle. It was too late; the general had already made up his mind...
...glad you brought up the subject of naming race horses [June 14]. It is my ambition to name a race horse. If you know anyone who is having a hard time of it, put them in touch with...
...mestizo and 10% white-live in abject poverty, either scratching out a living in the scabrous, rock-strewn Andes or drifting into the reeking slums that blight the cities like open sores. With the disarming candor and detachment of one who is stepping down from power-and is glad of it-Arosemena tells it like it is. "Infant mortality is high," he says. "The standard of living is low. The economy is in trouble as a result of exporting basic products-bananas, coffee, cacao-whose prices are in decline. The fiscal situation is also bad. Capital is lacking. Political passions...
...exactly welcomed the new machines. The robot, complains a United Automobile Workers official, can "even be programmed to shake hands. Presumably it could be set up to shake hands to say goodbye to the people it replaces." Yet in many cases, the people the robots replace are glad. Caterpillar Tractor Co. uses a Unimation-made robot to feed steel pins into furnaces, a tedious task that workmen heretofore had to perform with long-handled tongs. "The work is hot and repetitive," says a Caterpillar spokesman. "For the worker, it was just not desirable." For the robot, it's just...
...during the day but is taped at the cocktail hour "because," says Virginia, "women talk better then. The later the show, the more the barriers are down." And the dudgeons up. Once Actress Natalie Schafer greeted Columnist Sheilah Graham (no kin to Virginia) with: "Oh, I'm so glad to meet you. You were the cause of my divorce." Sheilah was also clawed by Zsa Zsa Gabor, who suggested that the columnist was too old to write about love...