Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monde" (Mr. Everybody). With a diffident manner and an emotionless voice, he is not the sort of charismatic figure usually found at the helm of revolutions. But he is a tough, machine-minded organization man who fought skillfully as a terrorist against the French, and is proving equally adept at intraparty warfare. His opponent, Ben Bella, 45, was one of the nine founders of the F.L.N. (only four others are alive today), a passionate orator and "activist," and still an authentic hero to millions of Algerians. In 1949 he held up the Oran central post office to get funds...
Ford is an appropriate successor to Bundy-young, bright, and equally adept at the conference table or the lecture platform. He is an able historian of Western Europe; his Strasbourg in Transition, 1648-1789 won the Harvard University Press faculty prize in 1958. Ford has also been active on several key Harvard committees. He served on the faculty committee on educational policy, was chairman of the 1960 faculty committee studying the Harvard admission system, and has been a trustee of Radcliffe since...
Died. Franz Josef Kline, 51, a leader in Manhattan's stronghold of abstract expressionism, a rugged, academically adept Pennsylvanian who, after early attempts at barroom-scene realism ($5 apiece), found his forte in 1950 with the lunging black-and-white calligraphy (as much as $14,000 apiece) that won him permanent wall space in the U.S.'s great museums and some derision ("Chinese laundry tickets"), who explained his aggressive oils as "not the things f see but the feelings they arouse in me"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Shinn, a member of the United Church of Christ, is a theological student of atheism, an adept Christian critic of such contemporary ideological trends as existentialism and linguistic analysis. "Let's welcome the modern world," he says. "Let's look for the good in secularism." Son of a clergyman, Shinn studied English literature at Ohio's Heidelberg College, theology at Union. Refusing a ministerial deferment, he entered the Army in 1941, was taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge, and ever since has had little patience with theology that is "remote from the affairs...
Thomson is also adept at discouraging too much domestic competition. Says Dontot: "Competition is good if it's not wild. It has to be somewhat orchestrated." In cooperation with other big French companies, Thomson is sometimes accused of orchestrating overly aggressive little new comers clean out of business through "exclusive dealer" relationships and offers of easier credit terms to dealers than its rivals can afford...