Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, the island had buzzed with the rumor. Last week it became official. Characteristically, the man who made it so was Puerto Rico's Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella, the target of San Juan's busy tongues. A quiet, pipe-smoking grandfather known for his "illustrious conscience," Sanchez confessed to the people of his Roman Catholic country that he had left his wife of 30 years and would leave politics at the end of his four-year term in 1968-all for the woman he loves...
...centers. By intensive training and concentration, these highly trained men have learned to control as many as 21 radar blips?each representing an airplane?at a time. They have learned to steel themselves against confusion and panic, no matter how extreme the emergency. They have developed an intense but quiet pride in their talents, their responsibility and their record...
...since they put up to $200 a week in tips on his piano. His secret, he explains, is that "I don't play at them; I make them come to me." - Norman Wallace, at Chicago's Mon Petit, is a singer in the tradition of Mabel Mercer-quiet, cool, reassuring. In the '40s, he wrote songs for Edith Piaf; later he tried his hand at musicals in New York before migrating to Chicago, where he leavens a Continental repertory with up-tempo show tunes and a few Beatle ballads. The social set and young marrieds think...
...usually enlightened cam pus town of Chapel Hill, N.C., jailed scores of faculty and students for trying to desegregate local public accommodations. To keep the demonstrators quiet, Solicitor (Prosecutor) Thomas Cooper used a ploy of keeping them in a kind of legal limbo by indefinitely postponing their trials. Last week the Supreme Court voided the ploy, and in the process made history: for the first time, the court extended the Sixth Amendment right of speedy trial to all American courts...
...asked, and it often is: what draws them, the boys with the pinched faces and the girls with little fat pink stars for hands? The Square on Saturday night is the more tumultuous aspect of hum drum. A more intense, violent and glanduar aspect of quiet lives. When they were eight, there was the mechanical horse outside the Wellington Circle Woolworth's, the collection of baseball cards to be flipped down alleys blown clean by the spring wind...