Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...requirements are too tough). He intends to keep barnstorming until the election with his 21-member campaign entourage in a chartered DC-6, meanwhile governing Alabama via a sophisticated telephone hookup that keeps him in constant communication with the state. Only his wife's illness could possibly slow him down. Last week when Lurleen Wallace underwent emergency cancer surgery for the third time in two years, George canceled all speaking engagements to join...
...second installment, Kennedy & Johnson, about to be published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, wastes little love on J.F.K.'s succes sor. Her book's opening description of L.B.J., in Florida at their first meeting after the 1960 election, speaks of him as "Heavy. Heavy footsteps. Heavy body. Heavy, slow-moving motions. He walked strangely with his body bent slightly to the right." A few weeks later, at their second meeting, Lyndon Johnson swiped Jack Kennedy's unopened New York Times...
Finally, there was the enduring paradox of American relations in Asia: the ability of our allies to intimidate the American giant through protestations of weakness. The Vance mission clearly shows the Administration is slow to learn caution in handing out blank checks around the world...
Richard Hittleman, 40, neither chugs, tugs or mugs. His Yoga for Health, styled as an antidote to the "grunt-and-groan school," is so tranquil that it seems to be running in slow motion. No rippling triceps for him; lean as a leek, he eats only one meal a day. Preaching that "the body is the temple of the spirit" he claims that "20 minutes of yoga is worth an hour of ordinary exercise." During a breathing exercise, he says softly: "As we inhale we will visualize ourselves taking in from the cosmos the life force. As we exhale...
Under Arthur Krock and James Reston, the Times's outpost in the capital grew into an independent fiefdom, often brilliant but sometimes slack and slow compared with less lofty competitors. Complaints along these lines from New York headquarters were brushed aside almost as a matter of principle. In 1964, Reston acquired the pulpit of a full-time pundit, and was replaced as bureau chief by Tom Wicker, a top reporter, occasional columnist and indifferent administrator...