Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only by a President, but by an Administration, and not only by an Administration, but by a Government. The President's chief function is to lead, not to administer; it is not to oversee every detail, but to put the right people in charge, to provide them with basic guidance and direction, and to let them do the job. This requires surrounding the President with men of stature, including young men, and giving them responsibilities commensurate with that stature. Officials of a new Administration will not have to check their consciences at the door or leave their powers...
...built-in problems, both in concept and execution. Poor families learned quickly that there was no way to get enough commodities to feed the family; the supply of free food usually lasts ten or twelve days into the month. But that was more forgiveable than the program's more basic sin--its orientation to farm needs rather than the needs of hungry people...
Four SDS members, including Kazin, have written a leaflet expressing their support of Paul Olimpieri--the Marine now in the chapel--yet also emphasizing their basic political disagreement with the Divinity School students organizing his sanctuary...
Liberal forces have a lot of building to do at a very basic level if they are ever to challenge the moderate party organization. They put together a fairly strong organization for McCarthy this year. The state party chairman A. Wally Sandack voted for McCarthy in Chicago...
...agency was already on top of its field 13 years ago when Strouse moved from the Ford account-still J. Walter's biggest-into top management. Strouse, who was always more of an administrative man than a creative whiz, streamlined the agency and made it more profitable. "My basic thing," he recalled last week before leaving, "was to build a modern management structure." This he accomplished by separating senior executives from day-to-day operations so that they could think and plan better. He also introduced computerized operations wherever possible, cut back on the clerical help they replaced...