Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show-but not this time. Alan Jay Lerner (who wrote the lyrics for the unforgettable My Fair Lady) and Burton Lane (who composed Finian's Rainbow's fine music) miss the Viennese schmaltz of a Hammerstein or a Loewe that would give these songs warmth. Even the soft-sharp voice of Barbara Harris cannot make up for the lack of feeling...
...quickly shouted down by Bavaria's Conservative Leader Franz Josef Strauss. Blessed with the backing of C.D.U. Chairman Konrad Adenauer, Strauss still has it in for Schroder for his role in the 1962 Spiegel affair, which cost Strauss his job as Defense Minister. Accused of being "soft" on the "Eastern question," Schroder quickly backed away...
...higher in the past two years. Illia's one real action-cancellation of the foreign oil contracts-has proved a disaster; Argentina, once virtually self-sufficient in oil, now spends $100 million annually on petroleum imports. What irked Ongania more than anything was the regime's soft line, principally Illia's refusal to send troops to join the OAS in Santo Domingo. Ongania grew angrier still when the President ignored his plan for a series of collective security pacts, starting with Brazil, to fight Communism in the hemisphere...
...Russians know why their space ship Luna 7 cracked up in its effort to make a soft landing on the moon last month, they are not telling...
Scientists at both NASA and Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is building Surveyor, the first U.S. lunar soft-landing vehicle, remain skeptical of Barringer's theory. They say it is still largely conjecture. But it is conjecture that has made the problems of radar transparency a vital concern in the design of a sophisticated Surveyor altimeter that should have no trouble distinguishing the true surface of the moon...