Word: tamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thwarted search for a yet more representative staff, the Center is faced with a cruel dilemma. Members of national liberation movements or even citizens of the tamer communist countries are not likely to want to come to the Center, given its intimate association with the U. S. government...
Throughout the interview. Vernon would act the lion tamer. He would kid about radical criticism of the Center and then smile for agreement. At one point, when I asked about a book entitled United States Manufacturing in Brazil and quoted a passage from a Center Report showing its political bias, he explained that the precis was poorly done, and that the book was really about...
Even the police seemed tamer and less visible. Though hedged with restrictions, demonstrations could be held without being put to rout by police dogs, shock troops and water cannon, which used to be the rule. Controversy found its voice, as in the case of Father José da Felicidade, a parish priest who demands the "deStalinization" of the Roman Catholic Church in Portugal...
Jerry Kramer slaves for the Green Bay Packers-the football equivalent of the Radio City Rockettes-a group that habitually barters personal freedom for perfection. His tamer has been an emotional virtuoso named Vince Lombardi, a cross between the late General Patton and a good Italian mama: a raging, weeping computer who can get his players down on Tuesday, up on Wednesday, buried on Thursday and winning on Sunday, virtually at will...
...sympathetic toward them. I came away rather sad." The conference had been supported in part by the Washington Post and Newsweek, which together had contributed $15,000. Whether the USSPA will find it easy to get sponsors for next year's gathering is problematical. After a considerably tamer conference in 1966, both the Overseas Press Club and the Reader's Digest withdrew their support...