Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they find the environment totally changed. For Mitchell and his aides, Haynsworth met the criteria of respectability and honor that automatically accrues to one of his social and economic standing. What else was needed? For Nixon, it is enough that a President deliberate in solitude and have a nice, pleasant representative of the firm like young Ronald Ziegler (see THE PRESS) out front talking in advertisingese about the President being "cool," and his "meeting with staff" and "reviewing...
...dramatic series on ABC brings back that pleasant man, Robert Young (Father Knows Best), as Marcus Welby, M.D. Welby is an old-fashioned general practitioner, but Executive Producer David Victor plays him off against what he calls a "very 'now' young assistant" (James Brolin) who makes house calls on a 650-c.c. motorcycle. The first episode was about as good as U.S. soap opera ever gets: Can the "now" junior G.P., who mistakenly diagnoses a pretty young schoolteacher's terminal brain tumor as a psychosomatic "sex hang-up," make his peace with her before she dies...
...seemed in good spirits. "It's a pleasant job." he said. "Harvard treats me good. I've been working here 24 years. I had two heart attacks twelve years ago and they gave me an easy job. Before that I was a plasterer. Then I was a janitor in the North Yard. Threc-and-ahalf years ago I came here to this House. They give us free medical care up at Holyoke Center and I get along good with the boys...
...There were some pleasant surprises," he admitted,"but I was disappointed with several aspects of our game that I thought we had cleared up fairly well...
Great factories sent pollutants billowing into the good Minnesota air, subdivisions sprawled over the pleasant landscape, delays mounted at the airport, and traffic began to choke the highways. Most shocking of all, the water table was becoming tainted by thousands of leaky backyard cesspools. Even this problem, which posed an imminent threat to health, seemed beyond resolution. For four straight biennial sessions, the state legislature tried to form a huge metropolitan sewer district. But suburbanites felt city dwellers were going to take advantage of them-and vice versa-so the bill failed to pass...