Word: approachement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public view (although he did schedule his first formal press conference for this week). In their early days at least, most administrations are judged more by their style than their programs, which are generally embryonic at this stage. Nixon and his men so far convey an earnest, deliberate, unspectacular approach. The President's inaugural address clearly reflected this attitude: "As we measure what can be done, we shall promise only what we know we can produce." His actions in the following days confirmed that impression. He was engaged in a process of intense preparation to make decisions rather than...
...Medicine Balls. Nixon's approach to organization and work habits demands formal, early scheduling. Last week he was acting like a farmer raring to start the spring plowing. The morning after the Inauguration balls, with just four hours' sleep, Nixon was up at 6:45 and in the Oval Office at 7:30, after a fast breakfast of juice, oatmeal and coffee. The suddenly spartan regimen was something of a surprise considering that Nixon has never been noted as liking early appearances. But it did enhance the image of a superindustrious new team. Trouble...
Died. Welton Becket, 66, master architect whose clean, functional structures grace five continents; of congestive heart failure; in Los Angeles. Becket's eclectic approach lacked the individuality of a Mies van der Rohe or a Frank Lloyd Wright. "We are trying to solve the client's problems, and it is out of the solution of those problems that the design evolves," said Becket. And from his drawing board came buildings for ten of the U.S.'s top industrial firms, six of its leading banking houses and five of its largest insurance companies, as well as plans...
...natural and fundamental rights of the human person," declares L'Osservatore's second-in-command, Federico Alessandrini, 63. "But the church does not admit the same degree of liberty for the true and the false, for the moral and the immoral." Editor in Chief Manzini defends his approach to the birth-control controversy with a particularly beguiling argument. Criticism of Humanae Vitae has been played up so much elsfewhere, he maintains, that L'Osservatore must be one-sided in order to strike a balance...
...after the exciting pot-lighting, things get boring. Boring and cold. From 2 a.m. until 5 the smudgers have no specific duties except to make sure that overheated pots don't explode. Taking a fatalistic approach to this job ("if a pot's gonna explode, it's gonna explode and there's nothing I can do about it so I might as well not get myself killed looking for it"), the smudgers usually try to get some sleep. That's not too easy to do. If one of the smudgers has forgotten how dirty everything in the groves...