Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filed a petition for admission to the New York State bar only last Friday. His name is not yet on the office door, because not until next Jan. 1 will he become a full partner in the Manhattan firm of Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd. His secretarial staff numbers just two, and spends much of its time turning down invitations for the boss to make public appearances. Yet for all his insistence that he has no immediate plans for a return to national office, Richard Nixon suddenly seems to be the Republican whom everybody is talking about for his party...
Morarji Desai, 67, a stern ascetic who was Nehru's Finance Minister and was once a favorite to succeed him, has lost much of his popularity in the past year, largely as a result of his Draconian measures to raise taxes for the defense effort, but could still be the powerful right wing's choice...
...looks like a casting director's choice for the job-plump, bald, ruddy, even a little belligerent. At 70, age has not withered his stern skills nor staled his colorful style. But now, after 23 years on the bench, New York State Supreme Court Justice Samuel Simon Leibowitz finds himself before the bar as a defendant, his very qualifications to serve the law subject to review by a panel of his peers...
...postwar Germany, U.S. cars were derisively dubbed Strassen Kreuzer-street cruisers-because of their king size. Last week in Manhattan, Germany's Daimler-Benz showed off a new auto that is not just cruiser size but more like a battleship. Spanning 20½ ft. from stem to stern, The Grand Mercedes 600 is the world's longest auto. It is also one of the lowest: less than 5 ft. high, it has the low-slung lines of a dachshund. Boasting all the latest engineering innovations (disk brakes, adjustable pneumatic suspension system, fuel-injection 300-h.p. engine...
Accepting the limits of action offered by only three characters aboard one small sloop, Director Roman Polanski sends his inquisitive camera whirring from port to starboard, bow to stern, up the mast. He shoots over shoulders and behind heads, composing frame after intimate frame through which his unholy trinity inevitably reveal themselves. Every twitch of an eyelid tells a small, stinging truth. Man, woman and boy abrade one another until a climactic fight for possession of the knife abruptly exposes the very quick of character. Despising her husband, in his absence the cool young wife gives herself...