Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief contenders were two cousins who quarreled 20 years ago and have enlivened Jamaican politics ever since with their name-calling feud. "The opposition is made up of fools," cried incumbent Premier Norman Washington Manley, 68, an aloof, Oxford-educated barrister. In even louder voice was his opponent. Sir William Alexander Bustamante, 78, a tempestuous, half-Irish Bohemian. Manley billed himself as "The Man with the Plan," but to Bustamante he was only "The Clot with the Plot...
...started promisingly, but reporters remained distant, unfriendly, aloof. To hear them tell it, Nixon was soon slipping badly. Though all over California Nixon was getting good crowds, flocking to shake hands with him and applaud the distinguished native son, the latest California poll seemed to bear out the reporters' suspicions. The new Mervin Field poll shows Democrat Pat Brown for the first time ahead, 45% to 42%, with 13% undecided (in the last count, in February, Nixon...
Chaos to Stability. Aloof and austere in his business contacts, Erpf has a profound sense of mission about his role as a latter-day capitalist. The function of investment banking, as he sees it, is to help guide new or individually managed companies into what he regards as the highest stage of capitalism-"the large institution run by professional managers with the public conscience glaring at them." Only large corporations, Erpf believes, fully realize "the whole idea of capitalism, which is to bring solidity and stability into the market in place of chaos. I call that civilization...
Died. Brigadier General Robert Reese Neyland, U.S.A. (ret.), 70, aloof, single-wing wizard whom Knute Rockne called "football's greatest coach," a Texas-born, West Point-educated authoritarian who in a quarter century of time borrowed from his official career as an Army engineer built the University of Tennessee's Volunteers into the nation's "winningest" football team, ran up a record of 171 wins...
...Angeles' Samuel William Yorty, 52, is a maverick liberal turned conservative, whose close election ten months ago was considered a fluke. Politically ambitious, he has been learning his job while staying aloof from fellow Democrats, who are skeptical of his political leanings, and Republicans, who are pleased that he is a conservative. To him, "the West is still the land of opportunity," and, like most Angelenos, he was born "back East"-in Lincoln...