Word: taciturn
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...some months at least, Ziegler will probably preside over press briefings under the critical gaze of Nixon Aide Bob Haldeman, who used to be Ziegler's boss at J. Walter Thompson in Los Angeles. Haldeman is the most close-mouthed in dividual in Nixon's notably taciturn fraternity, and White House correspondents anticipate some barren days in the West Wing, even by the standards of L.B.J.'s aides, who were never famous for garrulity with the press...
...flight plan, Russia's unmanned Zond 6 was heading toward its own rendezvous with the moon. The Soviets also disclosed last week that in October, Zond 5 had carried the first creatures around the moon-two turtles, some wine flies and meal worms. But the Russians were notably taciturn on details of these missions...
...their German prisoner is full of grime, gore, suspense and pretension. John (David Hemmings), Tom (Tom Bell) and Cliff (Tony Beckley) are holed up in a war-scarred country house in a European battle zone, waiting for their sergeant. They kid and bicker, establishing basic character traits (educated John, taciturn Tom, sadistic Cliff). They set out some booby traps, kill some Germans and capture one called Helmut (Alan Dobie). With Helmut in tow, they try to make their way back to their own lines, killing and being killed along...
Parker is pleased with his crew's performance during the winter months. The taciturn coach says weight-lifting and running in the stadium have been "on a par" with previous years, "if not better." He emphasizes that he is "happy to be outside" once again...
WHEN presidential aspirant Eugene J. McCarthy mentioned the "Johnson pledge card" in a New Hampshire speech Tuesday, his taciturn audience broke into loud applause. A sore point among Granite State Democrats, the pledge card is generating the kind of bitterness on which, as one McCarthy official put it, "an entire campaign can be built...