Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generals became openly restive soon after his decision to restore civilian political rule (TIME, Dec. 28), at least in name. In fact, junta members planned merely to swap their khaki for mufti and continue to run the country; Park himself was the leading candidate for the presidency. This pleasant prospect was shattered last January when Brigadier General Kim Chong Pil, husband of Park's niece and boss of the dreaded Central Intelligence Agency, quit the C.I.A. in order to grab control of the regime's civilian political organization, the Democratic-Republican Party. With Park's tacit approval...
...most U.S. corporations, the treasurer was long considered a pleasant fellow who signed the checks and knew the way to the bank. Few businessmen think of him that way today. The profit squeeze, the need to keep a company's money flowing, the ever more entangling intricacies of corporate financing-all have made the treasurer a powerful executive who is involved in everything from capital spending to cost cutting. The new corporate treasurer is a tough, sharp-pencil man, and his skills and duties have grown so wide that he often boasts the title of financial vice president...
...provided the country with soldiers, administrators and artists, most Marwaris care little for civic improvements or municipal hygiene-they see no profit in it. Their indifference contributes to the neglect obvious everywhere in Calcutta, one of the world's most depressing cities; the wealthier Marwaris live in more pleasant surroundings in huge mansions on the city's outskirts...
Died. Frances Davis Lockridge, 67, plot-devising half of the husband-wife team that created the sophisticated Pam and Jerry North detective thrillers, a pleasant, undevious-looking woman about whom her husband Richard once said: "Frances suggests interesting victims-I kill 'em off"; of acute pancreatitis; in Norwalk, Conn...
Fraternities, which include about 20 per cent of the men, place even more pressure on their members. They offer a pleasant way of meeting one small group of friends, but within the group, the influence on the individual is strong. The "frat-rats" seldom associate with students outside their own house. According to Peter van Houton, Assistant Dean of Students, very few of the fraternity members attend the ASUC sponsored dances at the Union; each house has its own party on the week...