Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against Rhodes's I'm-ahead-so-you've-got-to-come-get-me tactics, Di Salle has only recently come out of his sulk. At his best he is very effective, with a combination of good humor and emotion that can swing votes. He tackles the touchy issue of his tax increases squarely. "The highway worker complains about the gasoline tax," Di Salle tells his audiences. "But he still has his job and is building more highways, isn't he? The schoolteacher complains about the sales tax, but she is making a better salary...
Much of Alsop's campaign has been conducted in similar humor. Thus a factory worker in Litchfield, having just received a political leaflet from the candidate's own hand, sneered: "I guess you're for God, motherhood and country, ain't you?" Retorted Alsop: "That's right. And I'm also against man-eating sharks." An hour later, Alsop approached a suburban housewife near Torrington and said: "Have one of my biographies, madam. There's not a lie in it. A few exaggerations, perhaps...
Dutiful Flying. Everything went right from the beginning. Sigma 7 bobbed into a beautifully circular orbit, and calm, cool Navy Commander Walter Marty ("Wally") Schirra, 39, was in buoyant good humor. "Sayonara!" he cried when the escape tower separated, and soon he reported "all systems green and go." Then he settled down to cheerful, competent and dutiful space flying. He watched the instruments closely and talked with each control station as he passed near it. Like the other astronauts, Schirra ran into trouble with the water boil-off system of his space suit, and its temperature became so high...
...Artillery Shell. During Schirra's astronaut training, he built up a reputation as a dedicated, no-nonsense student of the just-born art of space flight. He has kept his sense of humor and some of his youthful mischievousness. but he never lets either affect his job. He hates heroics, and has avoided publicity stunts as much as possible. His last month TV outburst against making "show biz" out of the astronauts (TIME. Sept. 21) underlined a long and strongly held feeling...
There was humor, as in the brightly uniformed Captain Jinks, who once was in front of a cigar store. And there was a talent for caricature, as in the stubby statue of Henry Ward Beecher. A Carrousel Rooster scampers off to nowhere, each wooden feather in place. A copper lady of fashion, which once adorned a dressmaker's establishment, is a swirl of rhythm. Eagles, monkeys, cats, lions, woodchucks, hogs, pouter pigeons, turtles and horses make up a delightful menagerie that reported on the wind, beckoned to the thirsty, announced the presence of circuses, and symbolized the glory...