Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the others in the group, Dennis has been deferred by his draft board, but "only because I'm really a sick guy," he explains. His thick medical folder didn't impress the board at first, although he has something he calls "cancerous arthritis." He was finally deferred because he threatened to kill himself if the psychiatrist didn't recommend a deferment. "I'd clear all American soldiers out of Vietnam," he volunteered. "Then I'd send a note to Red China saying, 'You've got 20 minutes. The bombs are on their...
Dennis tries to impress people with his respectability. Mike Love, a cousin and the group's 24-year-old lead vocalist, went straight to bar after Friday's concert, and the other Boys drank easily and knowledgeably as they wandered about the suite. But Dennis kept his glass filled with Seven-Up and clucked paternally at his younger brother, who left early to go to the bar in the lobby. When Dennis offered us Cokes, he apologized and explained again that he doesn't drink. "I can't afford to," he says, "with everything that's wrong with...
Senate seat in Illinois? The parallel appeals strongly to many Midwestern Republican leaders. Last week they were striving mightily to impress it on Chuck Percy, the Bell & Howell board chair man who narrowly lost his bid for the governorship in last year's G.O.P. debacle. Next year, they urged, Percy should enter the lists against three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 73, a popular paragon of liberalism and a comfortably protected member in good standing of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's well-greased machine...
...Nasser's Tahra Palace, they moved into a luxury suite on the 19th floor of the Nile Hilton, next door to the suite of U.S. Film Star Charlton Heston and his family. On his way home from Casablanca, President Aref also stopped off in Cairo, perhaps to impress on Nasser the need for making haste slowly in ar ranging the eventual union of their two nations...
...office worker, Ade Tuyo, 63, cast around for a business that would have 'first priority in people's spending" opened a bakery that today has four shops and makes 115 products. The firm's unusual name-De Facto Works Ltd.-was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business