Word: aloofness
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...Lyndon Johnson has anything to say about it, his aloof, ferociously efficient Defense Secretary will stay with it at least another thousand days. "He's the only man in my Cabinet I can find at his desk at 7 a.m.," allows L.B.J. Since resigning as president of Ford Motor Co. to come to the Pentagon in January 1961, McNamara has proved the most controversial, strongest and best Defense Secretary in the history of the office, and has made the post the second most important in the Government...
...this simplified sexual interpretation of psychosis, no attempt is made to explain behavior except through the familiar device of a family portrait in which one sister stands aloof and stricken, while the other lies draped seductively over her father's knees. Writer-Director Polanski nonetheless makes his fair murderess seem authentically tragic, herself the most pitiable victim of the evil she does. Whether such a film finally serves any purpose other than to scare people silly remains doubtful, yet in the long tradition of cinematic shockers, Repulsion looms as a work of monstrous...
Except for daily briefings by India's army chief of staff, tall, mustached General Joyanto N. Chaudhuri, Shastri stays aloof from the war. Explains an aide, "He feels this is a professional matter, and should be left to the professionals." Most of Shastri's day is spent with Parliament and in meetings with an emergency committee made up of five of his Cabinet ministers. Here, Shastri makes the decisions, overruling Defense Minister Yashwantrao B. Chavan, who opposed the digging of slit trenches in New Delhi for fear of alarming the population, and ordering that rationing machinery...
...Russia has lost much of its enthusiasm. Peking is still the big spender, having provided $650 million in economic aid. Though Ho at first responded to the Chinese largesse by mimicking Mao with Orwellian hate campaigns, kangaroo courts and rapid, brutal collectivization, he has also tried to remain aloof from the Moscow-Peking ideological quarrel. Essentially, it is in the North Vietnamese interest to work both sides of the street. And basically it is in Washington's interest to keep Ho astraddle, while at the same time doing nothing that might drive Russia and Red China together. Bombing...
Returning to Turin in triumph, Fiat's normally aloof President Vittorio Valletta, 82, was cagier than ever, refused to discuss particulars. But if a great many details can be worked out, Fiat will build and help to staff the first fully Western-designed auto company on Soviet soil. (When Russia began producing autos in the 1920s, it bought some machinery and hired engineers from Henry Ford.) Officials of Fiat, which sells more cars in Europe than any other manufacturer, believe the agreement gives them a substantial lead over competitors in the only major untapped auto market left...