Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rumors that he already has been offered a $100,000 contract. In the meantime, he is looking ahead to December's Davis Cup Challenge Round in Australia, when he hopes to help take back the cup that the U.S. has not won since 1963. "It's nice to hear the announcer say 'Point-Ashe,' " he admits, but Davis Cup competition is something else again. "I'd rather hear 'Point-United States...
Died. General Rene Cogny, 64, commander of French troops in North Viet Nam during the fall of Dienbienphu in 1954; in the crash of an Air France Caravelle jetliner that took 94 other lives; in the Mediterranean, near Nice. Known to his men as Le General Vitesse (General Hurry-Up), Cogny protested angrily when superiors ordered him to hold a defensive position at Dienbienphu, which fell to the Communists after an eight-week siege. Equally bitter was the political settlement reached at the Geneva Conference shortly thereafter. Said the general: "Too many deaths, too many deaths for nothing...
...Nice, Malraux ordered that work on a new luxury apartment building be delayed to give archaeologists a chance to probe the remnants of a prehistoric village unearthed on the site. Last year he halted construction of an important urban-renewal project in downtown Marseille and unleashed the archaeologists when power shovels uncovered massive fortifications built by Greeks during the 6th century B.C. Malraux has now struck again, using his influence to prevent the Rhône River town of Vienne from building a secondary school over what may well be the most important Roman ruins ever discovered in France...
...music recitals, to which they invite politicians, diplomats and society leaders. So, while their specifications called for only three bedrooms, that did not include a servants' wing with three additional bedrooms, two baths and sitting room. And for the swimming pool, the Kreegers thought that it would be nice to have an extra pool-level kitchen, not to mention a Plexiglas-roofed inner court for tropical plants...
...minds his reputation as the nation's sharpest hatchet man. "In four out of five pieces," he answers, "I bend over backwards to be nice to the subject. But life just isn't apple pie and Mother's Day seven days a week, and if you're going to write something that isn't going to be thrown out with, the coffee grounds, you have to tell it like it is. Look, I'm a very people-oriented person. I grew up without any unhappiness. And I just love people. But if some jackass...