Word: minor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such minor quirks, the members of Richard Nixon's Cabinet are a staid lot who have generally similar tastes. They are not eight millionaires and a plumber, as Eisenhower's original choices were irreverently-but accurately-described. Though some are wealthy, most live unostentatiously. While one, Red Blount, is a qualified jet pilot, none of them is by any stretch a jet-setter. Their mode of living is mainly suburban middleclass, with strong emphasis on family life and informal entertaining at home. A possible exception to the pattern is New York Investment Banker Maurice Stans...
...balance and discretion, rarely overstepping into excess. "Tinker Taylor," for example, has a pleasant original riff and this is milked in the song just about as far as it will go and no more--not pounded to death as some American groups are prone to do with their own minor creations. Within the limits in which prediction is possible in rock Terry Reid is definitely a find...
COOGAN'S BLUFF. This story of an Arizona sheriff (Clint Eastwood) who comes to New York on a manhunt, amply justifies Director Don Siegel's reputation as a minor film genius...
...North Carolinian Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, 49, accepted the relatively minor post of director of the women's bureau in the Department of Labor. She is now president of the National Education Association, the world's largest professional organization. Obviously alluding to other Negroes who have turned down posts in the Nixon Administration, Mrs. Koontz said: "I've taken this job because I'm an American citizen who wants to improve our society, and that's a job for all American citizens...
...long as you're chanting, you're in. If you stop chanting, you're out." Members can chant for anything, any time, and the newer ones often concentrate on material wants: a better apartment, a new job, a new car. Members even testify to such minor miracles as praying a traffic cop out of a ticket, or a professor into a passing grade. One San Francisco hippie who joined the sect prayed for-and got -"a pocketful of drugs," then tried for something harder: a girl named Sue. "That week," he disclosed in an English-language monthly...