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...50th birthday of a serving lady is a closely observed phenomenon in the House dining room. To an optimist, it may presage the transformation of a tight-lipped grapefruit juice-flavored lady into a placid and friendly peanut butter sandwich...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: The Four Flavors of Serving Ladies | 12/14/1964 | See Source »

...cleared up by drugs, and if Ford's cramps return next year, about the only thing left will be surgery to bypass the blocked artery with a piece of his own vein or a Dacron tube. But by week's end Dr. Cooley was a relieved optimist: "Now I know how the surgeon felt who operated on Caruso's vocal cords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Repair of a Pitching Arm | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...sunshine and smiles. He got along famously with the new U.N. mediator, Ecuador's ex-President Galo Plaza, replacing the late Sakari Tuomioja of Finland, who died this month of a stroke. An athletic, handsome man of 58 who fights bulls for fun and is a constitutional optimist, Galo Plaza is proud of his Spanish ancestry. He said to Makarios, "I have Mediterranean blood in my veins and Mediterranean caution about believing all I am told." Smiled Makarios, "Ah, then we will understand each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyprus: Greeks Bearing Gifts | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Rauh's optimism may have been at fault. He should have prepared the delegates for a compromise. But Rauh is a natural optimist. It is probable that the delegates misinterpreted his personality...

Author: By Nancy Moran, | Title: The Politics of Civil Rights: | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Rauh's optimism may have been at fault. He should have prepared the delegates for a compromise. But Rauh is a natural optimist. It is probable that the delegates misinterpreted his personality...

Author: By Nancy Moran, | Title: The Politics of Civil Rights: | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

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