Word: smoothers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time was wasted settling in, however, and the transfer of tenancy was even smoother than the transition of power. Within three hours-from the minute the Johnsons stepped out the door until the Nixons stepped in-almost all traces of the previous occupants had disappeared. The Johnsons' clothes and personal effects were whisked away; walls were cleaned to remove the telltale rectangles that showed where the predecessors' favorite pictures had hung. Fresh flowers were placed in every room, books were placed on bedside tables, and fires were lighted in every fireplace...
Harvard's offense was devastating whenever it appeared on the field against Bucknell. Quarterback George Lalich looked a little smoother and more confident, halfback Ray Hornblower was cutting a little sharper and the two sophomore ends, Pete Varney and Bruce Freeman, continued to impress nearly everyone...
...about Warren Knowlton and Marty Ritter, as Mr. and Mrs. Edward Chamberlayne, the couple that gives and lives the cocktail party. Each seems to strike the right chord now and again, but more often they're just awkward enough to be vaguely troubling. Glenda Garrett is somewhat smoother than the others as Celia, and Harrison Drinkwater at least looks right as Peter; but no single actor is strong enough to hold things together by himself...
...other Coop official stressed "smoother operation" at the Tech Coop, which opened in 1966. He added that the Tech branch is learning from experience what merchandise to stock for the highest profits...
...Government is gearing up programs that should make the Vietvet's return smoother than Witherspoon's. Project Transition, set up at Fort Knox by the Defense Department, is cooperating with industry to give vets training in everything from mathematics to data processing, and has already placed some Viet Nam veterans in jobs ranging from postal clerks to oil-company salesmen. President Johnson hopes to recruit Negro vets as ghetto schoolteachers, and a bill to that end is being drafted for presentation this year...