Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even his opponents seem awed by his integrity, and are thus forced to pursue the point that Meyer's very honesty and foresight make him unqualified, on the grounds that a man who essentially speaks his own mind does not speak as a true representative. This allegation causes a smile to work itself slowly across Meyer's strong face, finally curling his thin mustache: "I've taken more polls, done more listening, and solicited more mail than any of my predecessors: I've gone up and down the state and I think I know a great deal about what Vermonters...
Tired Rerun. The cumulative effect of the TV debates only served to underline the Nixon lag. Last week's go-round gave the Democratic candidate yet another chance to exhibit the Kennedy charisma-the smile, the cataract of words, the repeated promise to move forward-that has put Nixon at a disadvantage before the Big Eye. Debate No. 4 in itself gave little new substance to their views, though, as before, the tension of the confrontation made the occasion dramatic. The inflexible format and generally inept questioning by TV newscasters produced a disappointing, almost high schoolish, rerun...
Forward Step. All this, insists Hansen, is not just "a reversion to the stilted education of the turn of the century." In fact, he adds with a quiet smile. "I could be wrong, but I think this is the direction education will take in this country...
...advertisements for Radio Free Europe, showing barbed wire, a symbolically gagged resident of a satellite country, etc. When a Soviet aide passed a note into the studio telling Khrushchev what was going on, he waited until the next station break, then raged about "trickery"; suddenly, he broke into a smile and said, "Do what you like, enjoy yourselves, we will win, we will win." Susskind later apologized, said he knew nothing of the commercials...
...tall, weighs 90 Ibs.; Sue, at 14, stands 5 ft. 2 in. and weighs 102 Ibs. Sue's picture used to appear in the J. C. Penney mail-order catalogue, for which she modeled junior dresses and bathing suits. Among her other distinctions: last year she won the "Smile of the Year" contest staged by the Los Angeles dental societies, and at East Hollywood's King Junior High School she played the cello. Her principal finds her "not bizarre," but if she is to play the role as Nabokov put it in the novel, she will have...