Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aero Club and was admitted to the Soviet air force's cadet academy at Orenburg. He graduated with top honors in 1957 and married a pretty medical graduate, Valentina Ivanovna. They have two children, both girls: Elena, 2, and Galya, one month. It was all so pat and proper and bourgeois that White Russian refugees from South America to Tyrone, Pa., recalling that Gagarin was the name of a princely family, felt free to claim Yuri as one of their own. But the suggestion that he was really a descendant of Russian nobility never quite rang true...
...Washington awoke to its propaganda defeat, the proper people said the proper things. President Kennedy congratulated the Russians. So did James Webb, chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. But behind the cheerful and gracious phrases were frustration, shame, sometimes fury.U.S. spacemen had been beaten again...
...Council should not try to legislate propriety. Rather, it should conduct an investigation to determine whether its president has in fact transcended the bounds of taste, judgement, or honesty. In doing so it will by implication draw what it considers the proper line between a Council officer's official actions and his political activities. If Phillips has crossed this line the Council should impeach him. There is no cut and dried formula for deciding a question like this; the Council has to treat it as a question of fact, rather than as a general legislative proposition. But the inquiry itself...
...there is a valid argument against Sophomore Standing then, it must lie in the realm of the intangible benefits of the Harvard program: "the Freshman Year" and "the House System." The purposes of the Freshman Year are to give students proper introduction to intellectual achievement, and to enable them to pick their fields of concentration. The A.P. student, obviously, has already been introduced to intellectual achievement, either through training at a top preparatory school, or through diligent self instruction. Many of these students have decided on a major field. Those undecided between two closely related fields may enroll...
...formidable vigor. Picking a conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic has long been her prerogative, and she exercises it with the care, authority and sometimes the emotionalism of Queen Victoria choosing a Prime Minister. Her latest choice, Hungarian-born Georg Sold, last week did not act the way a proper musical prime minister should. Charging Buffie with trying to run his orchestra, he quit...