Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cliff is a chunky high school dropout whose shirttail flaps in the breeze and whose hair-trigger temper has at one time or another 1) brought him an official reprimand from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association and 2) cost him a place on the U.S. Davis Cup team. Psychologists would probably trace Cliff's troubles back to his formative years-between twelve and 14-when he played with his sister and "she beat me every time." Says Cliff: "She used to beat me so often that she didn't even want to play me any more...
...TIME'S thoughtful Essay on Red China [May 20] should do much to temper the rantings of the bomb-'em-now crowd. It brings hope that China might yet, given another generation, become a world neighbor again...
...specialist at getting information other reporters hadn't. (For a time in the early '50s, he averaged two scoops a week.) And he was also an idealist - who in 1942 had written Prelude to Victory, which he called "not a book so much as an outburst of bad temper ... against anything and anybody who is concentrating but winning this...
...reach the top at G.M., where most of the hierarchs belong to the same Masonic lodge. He often goes to Mass before beginning his twelve-hour working day. In an industry driven by cool, computerized accountants and tough-talking salesmen, Roche is a folksy sort who never shows his temper and whose greatest failing, according to companions and competitors alike, is that "he may be too much of a gentleman." Roche now ranks second at G.M. to Chairman Frederic G. Donner and is the odds-on-choice to succeed him when Donner turns 65 in the fall of 1967. While...
Lacouture's piece on De Gaulle is written with a delicacy that is refreshing in contrast to the mere competence or polemical outrage of the other articles. De Gaulle, according to his longtime observer, is no overbearing dictator in the conventional sense. "Authoritarian by temper, unfit for negotiation, impatient in dispute, he wants to dominate by the highness of his thoughts and depth of his views, not by forcing upon," writes Lacouture...