Word: ticklishness
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Working indirectly with Assistant Secretary of State Thomas C. Mann (TIME cover, Jan. 31), Sanz and his committee will tackle the ticklish, difficult task of pinpointing aid needs, channeling requests and making recommendations on how Alianza funds should be spent. He has high credentials. Educated as a civil engineer, Sanz was a successful builder for ten years. Moving into politics, he became one of the best mayors Bogota ever had, served in four different Cabinets, was twice Ambassador...
...Saigon to look into Buddhist charges of persecution. The mission got a guided tour of two pagodas still under police surveillance, and avoided a third where a demonstration was feared. So far the visitors have met only government-approved monks, and none of those in jail. Facing a ticklish diplomatic problem, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge decided that the fact finders could interview Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang, one of three monks who took refuge in the embassy-if the Diem government had no objection...
...Ticklish Affair is unlikely to tickle anybody who is not addicted to an old Hollywood plot-boy meets girl's kiddies. Three lads want to find a husband for Mommy, a Navy widow (Shirley Jones). One day they flash a semaphoric SOS from their bedroom window toward the naval base across the bay, succeed in alerting a considerable portion of the U.S. Navy. When a suitably goodhearted, simple-minded commander (Gig Young) comes jeeping to the house, the boys look him over, decide he is just the man for Mommy. From then on, the story cruises so predictably that...
...does a doctor examine a patient who is too ticklish to be touched? Usually he doesn't; he asks such patients to press hard on vital points of their own anatomy and report whether it hurts - an admittedly unsatisfactory substitute. But Detroit's Dr. Robert A. Gerisch had an idea. He had grown up with the problem, because his own fa ther had been so ticklish that he would jump if anybody pointed a finger...
...memory of his ticklish father, the Detroit doctor has named his method "the Otto Gerisch maneuver...