Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talking Wildly. Until that outburst, which made even the "old Nixon" sound moderate, Agnew had been a model of circumspection. Painstakingly coached by expert Nixon aides, he showed careful, frequently thoughtful preparation in his formal speeches. Speaking on his own, though, he hit an entirely different tone. Besides talking wildly of the Communist menace, he argued against "appeasement of militant minorities in the ghettos." Entering the Fortas controversy for the first time, he took the remarkable line that Earl Warren, "a very competent Chief Justice," was responsible for the whole fuss. By retiring "precipitately," Agnew said, Warren...
...Mexico, for example, employ a psychiatrist or psychologist to look over job candidates. Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins relies on dozens of interviews with the applicant's acquaintances. "We're looking for a man who is able to get along with people, period," says Jenkins. "That may sound very amateurish, but it's the best psychological test that can be made...
...Another record, produced by George Harrison, offers Liverpool Rock Singer Jackie Lomax, 24, in a driving, bluesy delivery of a Harrison song, Sour Milk Sea. Then there is the 113-year-old Black Dyke Mills Band from the Yorkshire town of Queensbury. Producer McCartney decided that their traditional brass sound would be just right for Thingumybob, a theme that he and Lennon wrote for a weekly London TV show...
...voice still needs shading and seasoning. But of course, as long as Apple features its owner-producers as performers, it is in no danger of withering on the branch. Among its first LP releases this fall, for instance, will be the Beatles' first all-new, non-sound-track album since the epochal Sgt. Pepper...
...amazed at how many people think they can find their way around coastal waters with nothing but a highway road map," says one Coast Guardsman. Take the case of the New York boater who radioed last month that he was drifting powerless "somewhere in Long Island Sound." After fruitlessly combing the Sound with search planes and patrol vessels, the Coast Guard finally located him, three days later, 100 miles out in the open Atlantic. That man was lucky he had a radio. So many do not-like the boatload of hippies who put to sea from Boston last year with...