Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most complicated and puz zling figures. Because of his family name, his position in society, his brief but interesting Senate investigations and his unpolished charm, whether we like it or not, Robert Kennedy is undoubtedly the man of the future. Let us hope that he uses his talents and stamina for the good of the country and not just for the sake of adding another Kennedy name to the list of U.S. Presidents...
Parchment over Steel. Any man who can oversee and become intimately involved with every facet of such a sprawlingly disparate world, and who can deal with opera singers besides, needs the stamina of a Siegfried, the charm...
...Seven Decades" survey, as its selector Selz explained it, was to reveal "rebellion and innovation, qualities vital to the life of art." And the rebellion and innovation are far from over. After the galleries closed down about midnight, those of the opening-night travelers with sufficient stamina dashed up Fifth Avenue to the Jewish Museum to catch the tail end of yet another opening. There, 42 young U.S. and British sculptors launched what may be a new art movement. The new trend is all bare pipe and unadorned steel, and it trumpets "less is more" as its philosophical basis...
...investigation will require at least two years, after the Bell System submits its first written briefs in April. One reason: 66 public bodies and private corporations, from Aeronautical Radio Inc. to Xerox, have asked to be heard. In the end, the outcome could well be resolved as much by stamina as strategy-and Ma Bell has proved quite resilient over the years. The last time the FCC took her on for a big fight was in 1934. Those hearings stretched on so interminably that most of the issues were either settled by negotiation or simply forgotten...
...mellowed considerably. The years, and a strict low-calorie diet, have whittled away his girth but not, apparently, his strength. Always an avid sportsman, he now spends almost as much time hunting and fishing as he does in the Pardo, his 16th century palace just north of Madrid. His stamina is remarkable. He can still bound up hillsides after mountain goats, shoot 300 partridges a day, and wade for hours hip-deep in the icy mountain streams of Asturias...