Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the long days of the trial, George Broomis had listened at tentively to both sides. An openly emotional man, he tried his best to control himself, but at times found it impossible. "I'm a sentimental person," says Broomis, "and every time the tears came to my eyes I tried to stop them. Day after day, sitting there with him sitting in the chair in front of me, it was terrible. I tried not to look at him and I tried not to look at his mother, but they were always there...
...soared into London last week with her latest companion, Italian Star Franco Nero, and breezily admitted that they are expecting a child next September. "I doubt very much if we shall get married," said the star, adding, "I don't think marriage would make me a very nice person to live with" (her marriage to Director Tony Richardson ended in divorce in 1967). Well, then, will the prospective parents be sharing a household? "Oh, we don't live together," replied the doting mother of two. "I live in London with Tony's and my children...
...could vouch for this man's character. I mean, does he drink a lot, would you buy a used car from him-that sort of thing? After all, when it comes to national security, one can't be too careful. So anyway, Governor, do you think this person is a good risk? His name? Oh, yes. Nelson Rockefeller...
...says Tichauer, "men like Gilbreth produced many solutions, but there were no problems. Today we've got the problems." Even where the problems are now resolutely faced, he claims, they are often approached from the wrong direction. He contends that too often equipment is manufactured today for a person who, in his opinion, does not exist: the average man. The human frame comes in a dismaying range of sizes and configurations, and industry must reach at least a reasonable compromise with this unavoidable fact...
Toynbee is a touch old-fashioned to find disciples among today's aggressively youthful revolutionaries. But one point comes through as fresh as angry red fists in Harvard Yard. "A human being will insist on being treated as a person," he writes, "even if the only way he can secure personal attention is to get himself knocked on the head by a policeman's truncheon." The enemy, in Toynbee's view, is not simply the Establishment or the Kremlin or the Pentagon but "competitive Individualism, bee-like or antlike Communism, and tribal-minded Nationalism." Such things, Toynbee...