Word: whirls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Symbol of Good Will. Central to what Khrushchev was trying to accomplish in the week's whirl of clenched fists and clownish grins, rattling rockets and fluttering peace doves, was his assault on President Eisenhower. In part, Khrushchev's attack was read as an outburst of pique and frustration. During the thaw Khrushchev staked his prestige on his mistaken notion that he could take Ike into camp, negotiate with him some kind of U.S. retreat from Berlin (Ike had once called the Berlin situation "abnormal"). The U.S.'s determination to stand firm in Berlin, made evident...
...administrative expenses lopped a whopping $1,030,840 off the gross estate. Ann Woodward, 43, and her two sons, William III, 15, and James, 11, each get the income from a third of the residuary estate. Ann, who has not remarried and largely abstains from the Manhattan social whirl these days, also got a cash bequest...
After that it was just one great bewildering whirl of salesmanship. She withdrew $7,300 of her savings to buy a lifetime course, put two mortgages on her home to buy the $9,000 gold medal course and then the $12,000 lifetime executive course. By mid-July she had paid out over $25,000, had a nervous breakdown from worry over paying the rest. What sales technique had been used on Mrs. Frisch? Just sheer flattery. Admitted her instructor: "She idolized flattery." In the past, when similar complaints have popped up, Arthur Murray has neatly danced aside, pointing...