Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. A young novelist has chosen her words with such delicacy and precision that even the trite theme of a holiday affair between an inhibited, not-so-young Englishwoman and a smooth, not-so-young Italian architect has become a haunting and poetic tale...
...Pope Paul VI sent his blessing, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin expressed "the Soviet people's deep satisfaction," and Lyndon Johnson sent a warm invitation to keep the date that Shastri had made for a Washington visit?around Feb. 1. Those who wished India well could only rejoice at the smooth transition of power. Though India is a nation of 480 million people speaking 14 major languages, and plagued by deep religious antipathies, it had proved for the second time in less than two years that it could lose a leader and not lose its head. That fact alone was encouraging...
...choice rested with the top people of the Congress Party. Normally, that would mean the "syndicate," the handful of political bosses who have recently dominated the party, and who stage-managed Shastri's smooth ascension to power. This time the kingmakers were divided. The most prominent of them all, mustachioed Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, had angered the others by holding on to his post as party president for a second term. Without so much as a bow to him, the remaining syndicate members settled on Nanda as their candidate...
Division of Powers. There is a growing possibility that Franco himself may step in to smooth the transition. He is aware of the problems that his death will create, and, painful though it may be, finally seems to be doing something to try to lessen them. Three times in the past 18 months, his speeches have referred to the need to "institutionalize" the regime. With his approval, the first tentative drafts of a new "institutional law" were debated behind the closed doors of last year's final Cabinet meeting...
...past two games, Coach Cooney Weiland has been using defensemen Bobby Clark and Kevin Burke as forwards on a brand-new third line. The defense now is handled by Bob Carr with Tag Demment, and Ben Smith with Gordon Price. Carr and Demment have played especially smooth and tough defense...