Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arnold, who plays the third sailor, has worked overtime giving himself gestures and tends to be too studied. The sailor's girls--Alice Nagel, Barbara Menaker and Carol Baer--are well-cast, sweet-voiced and couldn't be more appealing...
...HAMP. A sweet but Simple Simon gives in to panic at the front during World War I, and is punished by a military machine that cannot afford to temper steeliness with compassion. Robert Salvio gives a most sympathetic interpretation of Private...
...Sweet & Pungent. Any less stringent reform, O'Brien argued, could only be "painful and difficult" because of the "restrictive jungle of legislation and custom that has grown up around the Post Office Department." If the telephone system were run as the mails are, he said, "the carrier pigeon business would still have a great future." In view of the postal service's snowballing problems (TIME, Dec. 30), the idea of a quasiindependent agency similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority offers some compelling advantages...
Congress has long relied on the postal service as a tub of sweet-and-pungent pork. Instead of using the patronage system, which has hurt morale and impeded efficiency, the corporation could promote on merit. Another major problem has been the Post Office's archaic technical facilities; with construction programs pressured on one side by budget vagaries and on the other by congressional logrolling, it has tended to be more interested in concrete than com puters-though even its buildings are inadequate. The agency envisioned...
Striking Spots. In addition to NBC's Labunski, there was old Arnold Zenker again (TIME, April 7), filling in for Walter Cronkite and doing a pretty good job of telling the news too. True enough, some of the other substitutes sounded like sweet young office secretaries or shipping clerks trying to be discovered. For compensation, there was a sense of humor about it all. Public Affairs Man ager George Heinemann, who had taken over WNBC-TV's evening weather shows, couldn't help looking like an elderly but appealing high school boy hauled up to the front...