Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Greying, slight (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.), he is shy, quiet, retiring. A nonsmoker and nondrinker, he likes to raise vegetables, walk Civil War battlefields, and take pictures with a prewar Kodak Bantam special ("Best camera Eastman ever made"). His soft Georgia voice takes on a rare commanding ring when he mentions the liberal social policies he has been writing about, arguing for, and putting to work for more than a quarter of a century. He constantly seeks a practical, private-enterprise solution to social problems, e.g., when he found in 1953 that federal employees had no group...
Leaflets & Buses. Next day, as the rioting rolled on, anonymous leaflets flooded the city urging Frenchmen to take up arms in protest against the Café Gonin bombing and Grandval's "soft" policy. In groups of two and three hundred, European vigilantes stormed through the city, pillaging and burning native shops, overturning buses. Most vengeful were the Pied Noir (Black Foot), half-breeds of mixed Italian, Spanish and Moroccan blood and Morocco's equivalent of the South's "poor white," who hate the native Moroccans with a fury based on economic insecurity. In the heart...
...policy he has followed steadily since the June 16 bombing revolt: to seem the statesman and play the peacemaker while stalling for time to mend his power. Coming after his opponents had spent a week noisily rejecting his offer of a truce of the week before, charging trickery, his soft retort left them with their fists up and no one to fight...
...figures. After the war, when Americans were hungry for domestic goods, he produced Stop the Music, the most lavish of the giveaway shows (refrigerators, washing machines, etc.). In between, he headed up the New York office of the wartime OWL As a personality, Cowan is a paradox: a soft-spoken huckster with a Ph.B., who is more apt to recount his failures than his successes...
Called Loan. In Merced, Calif., Burton Idas Dunahoo, 42, rented a screw driver for $1 at a service station, was caught using it to pry open the money box on a soft-drink machine, angrily demanded his money back as police hustled him off to jail...