Word: restlessness
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...visitors, the President of the U.S. seemed outwardly edgy-shifting about in his chair, straightening his tie, pulling up his socks. But behind the gestures, typical of John F. Kennedy's restless style, lay a new and considerable confidence...
Music & Mixers. For restless Ray Kroc, the road to drive-in wealth began with a series of detours. After early stretches as a jazz pianist and musical director of Oak Park, Ill. radio station WGES, Kroc spent 17 years selling paper cups and then Multimixer milk-shake makers. One day in 1954 he stopped at a drive-in run by two brothers named McDonald in San Bernardino, Calif. Impressed by their efficient operation, Kroc struck a bargain with the brothers: in return for use of the McDonald name and techniques, he agreed to pay them 0.5% of all future sales...
...China. In the Sunday Times, he reported that he could find "no evidence'' that the Chinese people were becoming tired or disillusioned. In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Monty reported: "Talk of large-scale famine, of grim want, of apathy, of a restless nation, is nonsense, maybe even dangerous...
Clearly, Mr. Wilson does not approve of his seedy characters and their restless travels. But having decided to write as an Angry, he has deserted detachment and abandoned the garden; as a result, of course, his book is as wearisome as his characters. The actor, who mouthes a Bohemain credo, is particularly trying, and one is required to read so many pages of his awful shoutings: "They're [presumably the untroubled middle classes] all hypocrites and frauds. They spend their money so they can buy television sets and washing machines, but the one thing they can't buy is human...
Today, with Trujillo gone, Balaguer is left to hold the restless country together -at least until the promised free elections next May. A strong man would find the task difficult. Cut off from much of its normal hemisphere trade and the normal bonus on U.S. sugar-quota sales, the economy is in near collapse. Politically, the tensions grow more dangerous each week as the long-throttled opposition rises to take advantage of the new "democratization" of Balaguer violently resisted by the dead dictator's henchmen. Of little help is Ramfis Trujillo Jr., who commands the military and professes support...