Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Logic sometimes outruns truth. It was a plausible assumption, in your article on Rene Lacoste [Sept. 1], that the French champion gained the sobriquet, le Crocodile, because he "played so fiercely." Actually, he was called that because of his saturnine poker face, and it would appear that his more vivacious daughter has inherited something of that same crocodilian countenance, if one might judge from some of her expressions while addressing a golf ball. There was never a more machinelike player than Lacoste in his heyday. He won so consistently because his ground-strokes could not be faulted...
...accurate," said Romney. The Pentagon quickly replied that "it is the Governor who is giving inaccurate information," noting that draft calls for the first ten months of 1967 are down 136,840 from the 1966 total. Said McNamara: "I don't think Governor Romney can recognize the truth when he sees or hears...
...testimony against Andreas. The two men, part-time Publisher Kyriakos Diakogiannis and Lawyer Andreas Vachliotis, had offered the story to other U.S. newsmen in Athens in return for air fare to a haven outside Greece. But until they got to Ramparts, they were unable to convince anyone of the truth of their tale...
...breast and said, 'Where did you get these secondary sex characteristics?' " Backing up her daughter's testimony, Mrs. George Schaffner, whose husband is an accountant, explained that "we would never have subjected Susan to this terrible ordeal unless we believed in her and the truth of her charges-we took this action to protect other girls in our community." Similarly, Mrs. Henry G. Smith said that she first "feared getting Mr. McNeill in trouble," but then decided that "neither Stephanie nor I wanted him around any more...
...comfort U.S. televiewers to learn that European programming has its shortcomings too. The highest TV rating in the history of Eurovision went last week to Games Without Boundaries (called It's a Knockout in Britain), a sort of Hellzapoppin' Olympics that would make Truth or Consequences seem comparatively cerebral. Yet the six-nation finals pulled more than 70 million viewers in six countries...