Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, as the G.O.P. adopted a new, stolid-looking elephant silhouette as a party symbol to convey strength, Nixon again allowed himself to be put into a posture of vacillation and weakness. The issue, in isolation, was hardly a major one -the appointment of an Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. But the job had been vacant since the new Administration took office, though HEW Secretary Robert Finch had selected Dr. John Knowles in January. After a final week of embarrassing indecision, the Administration yielded to the concerted pressure...
Temple Fielding has been called "a modern Baedeker." The description fits only in the sense that Karl Baedeker dominated the guidebook field during the mid-1800s, just as Fielding does today. For kings and governments may err,/ But never Mr. Baedeker, wrote Poet A. P. Herbert. Stolid and scholarly, an indefatigable wanderer and meticulous researcher, Baedeker was the first guidebook writer to rate hotels and restaurants with a star system (similar to that employed by France's Michelin guides today); he was also a culture demon who directed his readers to every landmark and royal pigeon roost...
...Chief Justice-designate is a son of the sturdy, stolid Middle West, the fourth of seven children born to parents of Swiss-German descent, Charles and Katharine Burger. The father was a railway cargo inspector who turned occasionally to traveling as a salesman of coffee or candy or patent medicines; the Burger brood was raised largely by the mother, who died only last year at 94. Mrs. Burger insisted that all the children attend Methodist Sunday school. The family moved in and around St. Paul; for a time they had a 20-acre farm, raising tomatoes to supplement the meager...
...Kurt Lotz, the elegant and imposing VW chairman. The line-up now stretches from sub-beetles to Mercedes-sized sedans. Auto Union's new Audi 100, an 80-h.p. model that sells for $2,223, has surprised Wolfsburg executives by competing strongly with the 411, VW's stolid, 68-h.p. entry in the medium-priced market. The basic beetle, which still accounts for nearly two of every three VW sales, is about to get some sportier company. In February, VW entered a joint development venture with Porsche; soon they will be producing a fast, mid-engine two-seater...
...runway can be seen a motley squadron of DC-6s, a C-46, a Super Constellation, and lately bigger but nonetheless obsolete C-97 stratofreighters, wheezing into readiness. Trucks dash up, hauling crates of food and medicines. Eventually, crews as varied as their airplanes - Swedes, Finns, Americans, a stolid Yorkshireman, a not so dour Scot - screech up in cars and climb aboard. One by one, at 20-minute intervals, the cargo planes lumber down the runway, turn northward toward the Nigerian coast. Late afternoon sunlight splashes on little blue and gold fish, the fuselage emblems of the interfaith airlift organized...