Word: standoffishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* A New Kind of Love (1963). Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Maurice Chevalier in a romantic comedy about a playboy correspondent and a standoffish career girl in Paris...
Moderate Noises. A former state legislator and highway commissioner, Ward, 58, has suffered from a stodgy, standoffish campaign style. Realizing how close the race has become, he last week recalled Nunn's appeals to the backlash vote in the Republican primary and charged: "He's doing it again. He's running a disgraceful campaign. He would make a disgraceful Governor...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). A playboy newspaper reporter (Paul Newman) and a standoffish career girl (Joanne Woodward) join hands in A New Kind of Love (1963), co-starring Maurice Chevalier...
...county agents learned during their training at a camp in Florida's swamp country, where the balmy climate approximates that of tropical Viet Nam. They were warned to expect terrorist attacks, told never to travel at night for fear of ambush, and informed about the standoffish peasants' social and religious taboos. The most arduous aspect of the course was learning the language from three Vietnamese instructors (heo is pig, bap is corn, ga is chicken, and farmer is a tongue-twisting nguoi lam ruong). Kiddingly, the agents asked their Vietnamese teachers how to say "I surrender"-and were...
...Swim. Mao's orders have made the Chinese diplomats more standoffish than ever. When the Cultural Revolution was announced, China's new ambassador to Algeria, Tseng Tao, had just begun to relish swimming at Algiers' spacious El-Kettani Club, a meeting place for the country's elite. Now he is seldom seen outside his for bidding embassy. Actually, Peking's emissaries are so isolated that they have little to do. But there was a flurry of activity in the Moscow embassy last week. In the latest round in the Sino-Soviet controversy, the Kremlin announced...