Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reporter Dowling knew how to handle people. Stiff-backed General Templer almost managed a smile as he told him: "You are like me. I can handle you!" Cambodia's King Norodom was enchanted when Dowling did the rongeng, a Malayan dance, for him. But his basic technique, he used to say, was silence. "Sooner or later something always snaps in the other person. Someone has to talk...
...conference this week, the U.N. called on the President of the U.S. In the chair it placed The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens, 60, a familiar U.N. figure. But when the conference got under way, the man in charge was a slim and sandy-haired Swede with an easy smile, a sensitive mouth, and eyes the same color as the light blue U.N. flag. He is Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the U.N. and the world's No. 1 international civil servant...
...tour completed, the visitor was asked by reporters what he had liked best. "The Americans." said Diplomat Molotov. Some reporters were incredulous. "That's what he says," said Interpreter Troyanovsky with a big smile...
...sight of the newly arrived American tourist rushing to Paris' Louvre or Florence's Uffizi is as familiar as Mona Lisa's smile. A far more recent phenomenon is the ceremonial trip to U.S. museums. So much topflight art has funneled into U.S. collections in recent years that today a tour of major U.S. museums has become a must on the agenda of many a foreign visitor, including Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth. Japan's ex-Premier Yoshida. Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab. Arriving in Washington on state business. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
Behind the Smile. The Etruscans' assurance of life after death, which amused the early Romans, gave Etruscan art one of the sunniest outlooks in history. Early Etruscan warriors were turned out in some of the handsomest armor ever made, and the statues which preserve them for posterity show them wearing an enigmatic antique smile...