Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kane found the three weeks he spent traveling with the Tigers a kind of on-the-job vacation. As a ball fan who grew up in Washington, D.C., and learned the game by watching the ever-losing Senators, he found it pleasant to be with a winner for a change. "While my associates were involved with more serious problems-convention coverage and urban warfare-I was utterly consumed with baseball. I sat through some fifteen ball games, including a doubleheader that had a 19-inning second game. I was never bored for a minute...
...winning ways of McLain and his teammates were no less pleasant for Cover Writer Charles Parmiter and Senior Editor George Daniels. Sport figures have a way of stumbling embarrassingly just as a big story is going to press. Denny McLain and the Tigers never gave the TIME Sport staff a moment's worry...
Covering the federal side of the conflict was rarely more pleasant for Paris Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer. But as TIME'S former West Af rica correspondent, Ungeheuer was fortunate to find some old beerdrinking buddies among customs officials at Lagos airport to help him past the red tape and get him on a flight to Enugu, former capital of the Eastern Region, for an eyewitness report of relief operations. also had valuable background files from TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold and Ottawa Bureau Chief Alan Grossman. During two years in West Africa, Grossman covered the Ibo massacres...
...eloquent bass guitarist building up elegant harmonies a la Paul McCartney, and John Entwistle knows and does better. A big solid unsmiling figure on stage dressed in black with a white ruffled vest ("I don't move around so I can wear fancy clothes") he is jovial and enourmously pleasant in the dressing room. "There's no other bass guitarist that's better than me because I don't play it like a bass guitar." And it's true, he doesn't. He plays it aggressively like a lead guitar, contributing positively always to the overall arrangement of each number...
...five months to serve of a four-year sentence for narcotics possession, yet last month he not only touched his two kids but romped with them on a broad green lawn. For three days and two nights, he was father and husband again, living with his family in a pleasant duplex ranch house on the grounds of California's State Correctional Institute at Tehachapi...