Word: vigorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiations. Contracts covering some 4,000,000 workers in such basic industries as railroads, trucking, autos, construction, rubber and meat packing will expire in 1970. Unionists will press strongly for wage gains to keep ahead of inflation. Caught in a profit squeeze, management is likely to resist with equal vigor...
Smelling the Public. Kerkorian hopes that Aubrey, whom he met for the first time only two weeks ago, can put new vigor into the ailing MGM lion. Kerkorian wanted a show business veteran to replace financial man Polk, but his choice for the presidency, Herb Jaffe, a vice president of United Artists, turned the job down. Gregson Bautzer, the Los Angeles socialite lawyer who counts both Kerkorian and Aubrey among his clients, introduced the two men at the Beverly Hilton and recommended Aubrey for the job. Bautzer's sales pitch: "Jim Aubrey has a real good sense of smell...
...Peasant Vigor. For a sculptor whose working life spanned more than 50 years, Brancusi's approximately 200 extant pieces do not constitute a large body of work. Once Brancusi found a motif that delighted him, he characteristically repeated it over and over again, subtly altering and refining its shapes and using different materials to give it new substance. There are 16 versions of Bird in Space. Not all his works, however, share Bird's elegant abstraction or the witty sophistication of Princess X, a subtly phallic take-off on the society-portrait bust. In his native Rumania, Brancusi...
...coolly faced down the Soviets during the 1959 crisis, when Nikita Khrushchev threatened the city's links to the West. As Bonn's foreign policy expert since 1966, he began an Ostpolitik diplomacy, seeking new amity with the East that his government is certain to emphasize with new vigor...
...most effective speeches, Wilson spoke of "a Britain full of life and vigor and achievement" after his five years in office. He promised better times to come and compared the Tories to poor-mouthing "Victorian undertakers welcoming a wet winter and the promise of a full churchyard." Labor delegates, who have sat on their hands after some of Harold's sorrier speeches, gave him a two-minute standing ovation, and even the independent Times of London acknowledged his speech as "one of the best in recent years by any party leader...