Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President of the U.S. had some electrifying news. With an air of quiet pride, he announced that the U.S. had secretly developed and successfully tested an aircraft that is far in advance of any ever seen before. Called the A11, the sleek, razor-winged interceptor flies higher and faster than any jet aircraft in history, promises a major breakthrough toward the futuristic world of flight at more than three times the speed of sound...
...Quiet Brooding. Chief credit for Swarthmore's current drive goes to President Courtney Craig Smith, 47, an Iowa-born Rhodes scholar with a Ph.D. from Harvard, who was teaching English at Princeton when Swarthmore picked him in 1953. A resolutely "academic president," meaning that he shuns fund raising, Smith is a fulltime faculty recruiter. He personally interviews even temporary instructors, says that "what it's all about is how to get a student and a teacher together and ensure that something exciting happens...
Only about half the students date frequently, usually on campus. Last year someone proposed a committee called SMOG (Students for More Outright Gaiety). It died aborning. Swarthmore is big on folk music and oldtime movies, short on sick fads like LSD. Swarthmoreans prefer quiet brooding. "The most casual-looking kids are going through the most intense self-examination," says one casual-looking coed...
...readying a racy new sports car, the Barracuda, for Spring introduction; last week the division raised its prestige with a 1-2-3 upset victory for Plymouth over Ford in the Daytona 500 stock car race. Trained as a financial analyst at Ford under Robert McNamara, Buckminster is a quiet, thorough executive. Before taking over the division in January, he raised Chrysler's share of U.S. auto exports from 16.2% to 22.3%, increased Dodge truck sales from 40,000 units a year to 74,000 and saved the money-losing Dodge truck operation just as Townsend was ready...
Although the Madison County national guard had been mobilized and had, according to Weaver, been drilling with fixed bayonets, there was no violence, and the whole "freedom day" demonstration was "quiet and orderly." On Saturday a 10 p.m. civil curlow was imposed under a law Weaver said had been "rammed through the Legislature...