Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oddly enough, the uneasy mood and the uncertain temper may in their own way be a cause for thanksgiving. With an innocent optimism that has always been a great strength, Americans have usually seen their glasses as half full, confident that they would eventually be brimming over; others, more accustomed to want, usually see their glasses as half empty, fearful that the rest, too, will soon drain away. No longer are Americans that smugly certain-and where there is doubt there is also the impulse for change. Thanksgiving has sometimes been seen as a giant Sears catalogue of the country...
...Washington telephone book, to mold his Administration. Prepared over the past seven months by Dr. Glenn Olds, former president of Massachusetts' Springfield College, the black-bound volumes contain scouting reports on some 1,500 possibilities for the Government's top 300 jobs. It remained to be seen how far Nixon will bow to political considerations in his appointments, but Olds deliberately gave that factor little weight...
...many Frenchmen have been buying bullion and foreign money and transferring their savings to foreign countries in hopes of eluding an increase in taxes and a decrease in the franc's value. It is too easy for self-righteous Americans to condemn this behavior. Anybody who has not seen his own fortunes dissipated by recurrent invasions, inflations and devaluations cannot fully understand the miser mentality of many Frenchmen and other Europeans...
There will be a radical shift of emphasis in Harvard basketball this winter, but whether new coach Bob Harrison's race-horse style will be anything more than exciting remains to be seen. The Crimson starts the season against Brandeis Saturday...
...movie has little to do with beautiful people or even money. Not only that, but it's a suspense film with little suspense; a comedy with few big laughs; a love story with no flesh. And Hot Millions characters are the kind of people Audrey Hepburn wouldn't be seen dead with...