Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state that counts tourism as its No. 1 business, it seemed only good politics when Florida's popular Governor Haydon Burns proposed a $300 million road-widening program last spring. Democrat Burns, 53, a former mayor of Jacksonville whose snappy dress and smooth talk have earned him the nickname "Slick," campaigned all over the state for the issue, acknowledging that his political prestige was at stake. Last month, in the wake of a Tampa Tribune report that the Gov ernor had requested $250,000 from contractors to ballyhoo the road pro gram, Florida's voters rejected the bond...
This year, Pickett seems to have the material. He has Ed Franquemont at 153 pounds, a smooth, sly junior who lost only one match last year, finished third in the Eastern Intercollegiates, and was by far the team's best wrestler...
Stephen Curwood as Randall, the self-educated hood, gave the most inconsistent performance. The biggest problem was switching from the smooth-tongued cool guy to the thoughtful sage, as Randall's schizophrenic character unfolded. Curwood started out with a high, screechy slum accent, which contrasted nicely with the low resonant, unaccented voice of his philosophizing self, but which was irritating to the audience...
John McCluskey led the Crimson backfield on an 81-yard drive--all on the ground--that culminated in Bobby Leo' four yard sprint around right end for a score. The Crimson's smooth defensetook advantage of Eli quarterback Watts Humphrey's desperate attempts to bring Yale back into the game to produce thes econd score...
...bond street, has achieved a 3-D effect by bonding a semitransparent Japanese print over a polka-dot crepe, thus allowing the polkas to show through the print. It is experimenting with scratchy materials such as fiber glass and burlap, which can be made wearable by bonding to a smooth inner skin. Also looming is a new rash of reversibles. Because bonding makes two-faced suits and coats possible, designers may soon be turning themselves inside out to give customers two costumes in one. Instead of going home to change, the day may come when a businessman can arrive...