Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reynoldses settled down to a quiet life in a Manhattan flat, a Palm Beach mansion, an estate near Winston-Salem, N.C., a Monte Carlo apartment, a Tahiti bungalow and a 30-room hideaway on Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia. Every year, Buck Rabbit gave Doe Rabbit $125,000 in spending money, about $40,000 worth of jewels-and, presumably, all the Camels, Winstons and Salems she could smoke...
Hugh Gaitskell's sudden illness and death were fate's cruelest blow to a nation plagued by difficulties in economics, defense and diplomacy. His quiet, persistent reasonableness rescued the Labor party from the chaos of a unilateralist position on disarmament and a total commitment to nationalization. His stature made the possibility of a Labor government seem palatable to many conservatives who saw the Tories collapsing in muddled confusion...
...times was deeply impressed on me." He was equally impressed by the quiet, reflective architecture of Venice and Pisa, the two cities, he says, that were most exposed to the influence of the contemplative East. Decline of the Glass Box. Back in the U.S., Yamasaki proceeded to tell his profession what he had learned. He paid handsome tribute to the glass box of the great Mies van der Rohe, but the glass box, except in the hands of a few highly talented men, had deteriorated into a cliché. He denounced "the dogma of rectangles" and the module system...
...immovable a fixture as Roberts' 200 Ibs. But last week, with a regal grace, the Star's president and executive editor eased both his bulk and his throne 10 ft. to the right. Into his old place moved Roberts' anointed successor: Editor Richard B. Fowler, a quiet, unassuming man of 60 who has spent 32 years in Roy Roberts' considerable shade...
...University, today functions as the family's salesman and visionary deal maker. Reflective Luis, 58, who studied mechanical engineering at M.I.T., is the organizer, labor relations chief and, as the leader of Puerto Rico's Republican Party, the family politician. The production expert is Herman, 53. a quiet sort who majored in civil engineering at M.I.T. (A fourth brother, Carlos, who died in 1958, was a chemical engineer...