Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court," Clark says. But the NAACP lawyers decided that the psychological evidence, much of it precedent-shattering, would be more effective as a separately bound brief, so Clark, along with Isador Shein and Stuart Cook, prepared the now famous brief, which, smiles Clark, "to our pleasant surprise the Court accepted...
...eight weeks, California's key Corvair case has been on trial in San Jose. The plaintiff is Doreen Collins, a pleasant-faced divorcee who seeks $400,000 in compensatory damages for a grisly accident in 1962 when she was driving her five children and her new fiance on a camping trip in a 1960 Corvair. Suddenly swinging out of control, the car hit a truck headon, killing one child and the fiance. U.S. Racing Driver Paul O'Shea has taken the stand to back the Collins claim that the Corvair was unsafe. British Racing Driver Stirling Moss...
...nation. Tucked away in the rural U.S. (as well as among urban hobbyists) nimble-thimbled women who follow historic patterns still exist, but the qualities that make a good quilter are hard to come by in modern times. Explains one mistress of the art: "It demands steady nerves, a pleasant temperament, equal dexterity with either hand, an inborn sense of line and form, Job's patience and time galore...
Though Pleiku was open for the moment, the peril in the highlands was hardly diminished. The next likely pressure point in the Viet Cong's plateau push is Kontum, once a pleasant mountain village of open-air cafés with circus awnings and a population of 14,000. Though only 30 miles from Pleiku, Kontum is surrounded by some 6,000 guerrillas backed up by an estimated 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars, and is still accessible only by airlift, as is nearby Ban Me Thuot. If the Viet Cong attack, as seems almost certain, Kontum's fate...
Except for its saucy rows of opaque lemon awnings, the four-story building next to the Düsseldorf railway station might almost pass for a clinic. Attendants carry stacks of fresh linen through its quiet halls. Its pleasant central dining room keeps hospital hours: breakfast from 8 to 10, lunch at noon, dinner at 5. Its 228 tenants, each of whom is examined by city doctors at least twice a week, spend most of their time...