Word: stiffness
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Differing Brothers. During most of the Eisenhower years, Allen and John Foster, his elder brother and the Secretary of State, played a predominant role in national security affairs. Presbyterians both, the two were very different in temperament and style. Foster, who died in 1959, was a stiff, ascetic intellectual. Pipe-puffing Allen was a charming extrovert whose laugh would rock a room. To Foster, the more ideological of the two, Communism was a morally repugnant philosophy; to Allen, more practical, the Soviet Union was a powerful political and military enemy...
...failure of Co-Op City does not stop with its debilitating environment. If the U.S. is going to meet the demand for housing without even more public aid, construction costs must come down. One promising way is to apply technical innovation, including large-scale prefabrication. But stiff municipal building codes and the power of the building trades' unions have blocked most such attempts, while construction costs spiral up, 12% a year...
Tire fast life decelerated sharply at 5 a.m. one day in 1952. Gianni was racing to Monte Carlo from a party in Cannes when his car skidded into a meat truck. He spent three months in a clinic in Florence. The accident left him with a stiff right leg-he still limps -but he denies any personal trauma besides distress that "I had not been able to let my friends know I would be late for lunch." Within a year, he settled down in Turin and, at 32, he married swan-necked Princess Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto. As Gianni...
...Senator, he has never been caught with homework undone. He made courtesy calls on his elders, including those with whom he completely disagreed. When Mississippi's James Eastland, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of which Kennedy was a member, entertained him in an early-morning interview with a stiff shot of bourbon, the guest smiled and accepted. The moment Eastland's eye was elsewhere, he emptied his glass into a wastebasket. Kennedy was soon a subcommittee chairman. He made his way. "Teddy" gradually gave...
...Stiff Party Rule. The most prevalent belief in Czechoslovakia is that the long, slow campaign of resistance since August has finally had an effect on national politics. The country's strength, say insiders, lies in an expanding axis of students, workers and intellectuals, who staged meetings, sit-ins and work stoppages to protest the Central Committee's announced intention of returning the country to stiff party rule. Not even optimists are convinced that, in the end, their pressure can reverse Russia's considerable success in crushing Dubcek's reforms. But for the time being, at least...