Word: jovialities
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...split between the four candidates who did not enter the first round out of personal loyalty to Heath. Her strongest opponent is William Whitelaw, 56, who became party chairman last year after a universally acclaimed performance as Heath's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The jovial, bushy-browed Whitelaw's greatest asset may be his incorrigible amiability. But his critics contend that he lacks both the temperament and the intellect to deal with the heated polemic exchanges that characterize parliamentary debate. Especially in the critical field of economics, Whitelaw would have a hard time standing...
ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR. A singularly jovial farce. Three suburban British couples party together on three successive Christmas Eves, and the audience gets blind drunk on laughter...
...jobs at GM to head the car, truck, body and assembly divisions. Terrell had been considered a candidate for president and chief operating officer, but that post went to a friendly rival, Elliott M. ("Pete") Estes, who replaces retiring president Edward N. Cole, an innovative engineer. Estes, 58, a jovial, mustachioed product engineer and auto-racing enthusiast, joined GM as a teenager in 1934. As president, he will oversee GM's $3.6 billion foreign operations, while continuing to manage North American auto production...
Ford said his players were spirited and jovial in practice here last night and that he expected a solid performance from his team...
TerHorst's own performances so far at White House briefings have been relaxed, businesslike and occasionally jovial. When a Dutch correspondent asked last week if the press secretary's forebears came from Holland, terHorst provoked laughter by replying in fractured Dutch. When he confessed that he simply did not know the answer to one question, instead of trying to evade it, a few reporters burst into applause...