Word: placidness
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...various civil rights groups. Working from photographs and his own impressions, he turned out his striking gouache study in just eight hours of work, after many hours of thought. He saw his subject mainly as an orator. "This is King today," he said. "He isn't as placid as he was a year ago. I admire the man immensely. He has moved more people by his oratory than anyone else I can think...
Shake-Up. Until four years ago, the intellectual life was as placid as the setting. Then former Governor William F. Quinn fired the entire board of regents, appointed an energetic new group headed by Dole Corp. President Herbert C. Cornuelle. This board brought in Hamilton, who began a ten-year development program that strives for particular excellence in those fields in which Hawaii enjoys natural advantages. Hamilton sees these as the behavioral sciences related to the area's multicultural citizenry, those cultural disciplines in which "the East-West dialogue is best promoted," and natural sciences tied to Hawaii...
...Wawa crops up at cable offices, where either the Telex or the telegrapher are inevitably out. It turns up at the airport, where engines, customs officials or both are missing just when someone is desperately in need of a flight. Wawa hovers miasmatically in hotel rooms, turning a once placid shower into a veritable Victoria Falls, or switches telephone calls from one trunk line to another. Africa is progressing in many fields against great odds, but Wawa is still spreading, and last week its first symptoms were revealed in Tanzania...
Silent as a Ghost. The G.M. sleds resemble the Podars about as much as a Corvette does a Corvair. The innovations include shock absorbers and sports-car-type "direct" steering (v. the Podar's rope-controlled runners). In trial runs at Lake Placid, N.Y., last month, a two-man G.M. sled beat the best time of a heavier, four-man Podar -and the four-man G.M. was faster yet. At St. Moritz last week, astonished European bobbers nicknamed the two man sled "the Ghost" because its rubber-seated runners merely whispered over the ice-while the Podars clattered...
...Indies, Pakistan and India before the bill was passed, the tolerance level among many Britons has become a good deal lower than it once was. Hence the fact that Labor's immigration policy has risen to plague the party-and particularly Patrick Gordon Walker. Until last October, the placid, pipe-smoking onetime Oxford history don had held a parliamentary seat from the racially mixed factory town of Smethwick. Then, during Britain's general election last October, Gordon Walker suddenly found himself in the middle of an ugly racial campaign conducted by backers of Tory Candidate Peter Griffiths...