Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cold Hors d'Oeuvres. If it stretched the imagination, not to mention good taste, for a movie fan magazine to put Jackie Kennedy on its cover, the magazine's editors were apparently equal to the strain. Movie Mirror, in fact, is only one of six fan magazines currently featuring cover stories about Mrs. Kennedy in what might seem to be a journalistic conspiracy. And without exception, all of them combine the same provocative windup with total nondelivery inside...
...acting chancellor: Martin Meyerson, 42, an internationally known authority on city planning who since 1963 has been dean of the College of Environmental Design at Berkeley. He takes over from Chancellor Edward W. Strong, 63, who has been suffering from a gall-bladder ailment as well as heavy nervous strain...
...compared with a 40% attrition rate among all Ohio State graduate students, even though the men must juggle the time for homework and classes with family demands and additional Air Force requirements such as technical training, military tests, and logging enough flying time to maintain their pilot status. The strain is heavy. "I really felt good when Dr. Hastings told me there was no such thing as a happy graduate student, that they are all plagued by pressures and indecision," says Captain Phil Hansen, an Indiana University business school graduate with twelve years in the Air Force...
After a promising beginning, Father Goose hits the shoals and settles down as a slick but superficial imitation of The African Queen. Its darling juveniles strain their precocity to freshen up the familiar fireworks between a proper young lady and an improper gent. The war itself looks like one of the livelier attractions at Disneyland. Grant and Caron endure pretty little hardships, finally try to get married by a chaplain over short-wave radio during a Japanese strafing attack...
...horse-drawn sleighs hauled the bales of trees off to shipping points. It was that time of year again for Canada's best-known industry, and growers were busy cutting the 15 million Christmas trees that they will sell this year. However, there is a bit of strain in the merriment this year for Canada's exporters of pine, spruce, Douglas and balsam firs. Reason: artificial trees are making steady inroads into the lucrative Christmas tree market...