Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wait around for someone who means something to you, it's the most rewarding experience." She has had a somewhat less flamboyant personal life than Coco's, but is consumed by a Coco-like work ethic. "Look at Chanel at 86," Lerner points out, "still pinning and ripping. I've never known anyone who is so totally immersed in her work as Kate...
Beyond the Lerners and Previns and Beatons-even beyond the real Chanel -it still remains very much Hepburn's show. Of Coco's 2½ hours, she is onstage all but twelve minutes. Although a mellower Hepburn than the imperious Kate of earlier days, she is still tough. "I think I'm feisty!" she agrees, "but people have just gotten used to me. Now that I've become like the Statue of Liberty or something. Now that I've come to an age where they think I might disappear-they're fond...
...election task-force report on manpower that Shultz had written and by the enthusiastic recommendations of his closest economic advisers, Arthur Burns and Paul McCracken. Mild-mannered and professorial, the new Secretary seemed at first to be another unremarkable technician in a Cabinet noted for its blandness. His speeches still resemble a lecture in Business Administration...
...tour business, Clark admits, still earns only enough to pay for the upkeep of the American Express offices abroad. But it has won customers for such other ventures as the teaching of foreign languages and the publication of Travel & Camera magazine, which Amexco established by purchasing and redesigning U.S. Camera and Travel magazine. In June, the company began a computerized service that can provide almost instantaneous reservations at some 250,000 hotel and motel rooms between Boston and Honolulu...
Unhappily, he is contained in a clumsily updated block off the old Chips. It is no longer the Great War but World War II that punctuates the scholastic calendar, Chips' missus (Petula Clark) becomes the victim not of childbirth but of a V-l rocket. Still, the boys are the same deferential crew; the school is ivied and kind, an eon removed from the kind of place Orwell considered "a tightrope over a cesspool." The only instance of sadism, in fact, is the disastrous decision to make Goodbye, Mr. Chips a musical. As a result, Leslie Bricusse was given...