Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Voodoo & Sequins. The large entertainment rooms of the hotels have the clearest, most agreeable atmospheres. The Persian Room at the Plaza is the most attractive, almost always features a lone singer (Lilo, Lisa Kirk, Hildegarde). The Waldorf's Empire Room, whose headwaiter has cultivated the manner of a Habsburg prince, offers the biggest marquee names, second only to the Copacabana. They include oldtimers and almost-old-timers (Nelson Eddy, Lena Home, currently Dick Haymes and Fran Jeffries) as well as occasional newcomers; recently the room sported the Kim Sisters-three Koreans who sing American and yodel, too. The Maisonette...
...wary about Vatican control over a Roman Catholic President of the U.S. But they have had an important effect on U.S. Catholicism as well. Many a Catholic clergyman and layman has been moved to think through his own views, with the result that the 1960 campaign has brought the clearest definition of American Catholic church-state beliefs in the history of the U.S. Catholic Church...
...town carries a large stock of "do-it-yourself" bomb shelter kits, when Civil Defense authorities publicly argue about the most attractive design for an underground city, Civil Defense measures come to symbolize the prospects for ultimate security. But to accept such artificial security is to hide from the clearest and most terrifying reality in the world today. To accept emotionally the prospect of the human race huddling underground indefinitely is tacitly to abandon everything man has accomplished on the earth...
Republicans. For the moment, at least, Khrushchev's crude belaboring of the Vice President was helping him. The U.S. public's clearest image of Richard Nixon is of an intense, finger-waving man arguing with Nikita Khrushchev in the kitchen of the U.S. exhibit at Moscow's Sokolniki Park in the summer of 1959; his Gallup poll soared on his return from Moscow-after which, predictably, it dropped. Almost as clear is the image of a man inextricably identified with Eisenhower's foreign policy-a picture which caused Nixon's friends to miss...
Working on the theory that a strengthened offense is the surest defense, U.S. military men are marching toward the clearest definition of U.S. defense policy since World War II. They are steadily slowing down spending for purely defensive weapons and shifting the funds into harder-hitting, faster-moving weapons of offense. Last week President Eisenhower took the biggest step yet, approved an $800 million Pentagon proposal...