Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubleheader. The win gave a timely boost to his own national prestige, which, according to opinion polls, has been slipping lately. Licata's victory also gives the state G.O.P. a one-vote majority in the legislature's lower house, previously deadlocked 54 to 54, and may thus smooth passage of the Governor's embattled tax reform program. Next week...
...company has bought, and many it did not buy, on his advice. He has surveyed and helped lay out most of the routes Pan Am flies, functions as President Juan Trippe's confidant and top corporate ambassador. Only two weeks ago, he was in Saigon trying to smooth out Pan Am's mounting troubles with South Viet Nam's Premier...
...desperate, almost pathetic, eagerness to do "significant motion pictures" with the New Wave. He speaks with pride of the ten movie offers he received this spring, but it turns out that all were Hollywood productions. One wants to tell him that he is just too good-looking, too smooth. The New Wave doesn't come after the Robert Vaughns, and Academy Awards aren't synonymous with "great things...
Harvard settled to a 36 after its start, but was not out of the race by any means, for Penn never really settled its stroke at all. At the 1000 meter mark, Penn was up at 39. Harvard, back by four seats and stroking a smooth 34, was moving closer...
True Bounce. Newest of the synthetics is Center Court, a smooth, felt-like acrylic carpet that may give lawn tennis its biggest boost in years. Manufactured by J. P. Stevens Co. for former Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood's Tennis Development Corp., Center Court is quick-drying, comes in 15-ft.-wide strips that are taped together on the underside. In one day, it can be laid over an existing clay or asphalt court with only a layer of honeycomb wire in between for drainage. It can also be laid on bare, level ground over a preparatory layer of polystyrene...