Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep each other up to date on what he has been doing technically and what we've been doing technically. John's falling behind. We need him to help us on a lot of decisions.'' Responding to Interviewer Walter Cronkite's questioning about "the strain of fame," Schirra added: "We shouldn't have to pay the penalty of publicity and being show biz in the sense of going to various gala affairs. If it's a scientific meeting where our attendance can contribute to the program, where scientists and other engineers...
...prepare for the role, Courtenay studied photographs of Czechoslovakian Runner Emil Zatopec, showing a face contorted by the strain of the marathon. Behind a camera truck, Courtenay ran for mile after mile, imitating Zatopec. But the real skill of his performance is more apparent when he is testing the roadworthiness of a stolen car, sitting home watching a peer on the telly, or walking a Skegness beach with his girl. In the first instance he displays pure boyish enthusiasm, then boyish iconoclasm, then a thoroughgoing experience of love. In each case, the emotion comes through as basic ally right...
...Time for Trouble. In their private talks, Adenauer and De Gaulle will undoubtedly discuss Britain's bid for membership in Europe's Common Market, a touchy issue that last week intensified the growing strain between Bonn and London (see below). Other likely topics: Berlin and the possibility of Franco-German military cooperation outside the framework of NATO. However, many diplomats in both countries breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that De Gaulle and der Alte will have only four hours together for formal talks. Hopefully, officials believe that the two leaders will be too busy patching...
...endless repeats that bring him in continuing fees, known in the trade as "residuals," he makes about $300,000 a year. He can imitate anything from the cry of a loon to the whining drawl of a mountaineer, run effortlessly through all the categories of voice quality-rasp, strain, fog, nasal, sinus. He can shift ground from tight-lipped British to loose-lipped Brooklynese to American rural, and run analytically through the ages of man, making his voice grow older as he progresses from the breathiness of childhood to the cracking articulations of the elderly...
...even with all the outside help, West Berlin is beginning to show some economic strain. The city's latest economic survey reports that new industrial orders from West Germany have dropped 12.8% from last year's fat first half. More disturbing, orders from foreign countries have fallen by almost one-third. There has also been a drop-off in big new firms opening in Berlin, and West German bankers and insurance executives have begun to shy away from lending money to West Berlin industry...