Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr sacrifices some laughs in treating two serious themes: the capacity to love and the squandering of talent. Still, wit and insight inform this tale of an English poet on an alcoholic sabbatical in New York...
...homes are without running water; the educational attainment of rural dwellers lags two years behind that of their urban cousins, and health facilities are poor by comparison. "These deficiencies," the President said, "leave too few resources to support education, health, and other public services essential to development of the talent, skills and earning power of the people...
...jailing American diplomats. An increasing number, fortunately, have found a more useful path to national pride: hiring foreign architects to design government buildings, hospitals, universities and even cities. To meet this demand, a colony of American firms has sprung up in Rome, which otters the nearest reservoir of technical talent and the best transportation to the underdeveloped nations. Last week Rome's top American architects ranged over Africa and Asia Minor, supervising hospital construction in Nigeria and Iraq, launching a highway project in Libya, delivering final drawings for a prison in Baghdad...
Stimulate, Not Stifle. To Johnson, the nation's economic growth was a triumph of the free enterprise system. But much of the rising confidence in the ability of the U.S. to break "cyclical patterns and maintain its prosperity rests on Johnson's own demonstrated talent for creating the conditions under which the free enterprise system can function most efficiently. He appreciates the vital distinction between Government action which stimulates the economy and that which stifles it. In meshing the disparate parts of the highly complex system, he would rather coax than coerce. Johnson has earned the trust...
...bigger surprise is Italian Actress Lisi, an import whose dramatic talent graced two dozen European films before Hollywood discovered her smartly turned sense of humor. Speaking scant English, newly blonde and lacquered to the customary high gloss, she translates her U.S. movie debut into a triumph of personality that will probably establish a long-term policy of lend-Lisi. She is devastating to behold as a centerpiece, though she somehow makes hard-sell sex seem at least as classy as caviar. She is delightful to listen to when she explains with gestures the stunning miscarriage of justice by which...