Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, 78, president of Chicago's Board of Health for 29 years, a widely read writer on baby care; of cancer; in Chicago. A tireless fighter against epidemic, Bundesen once said, with his usual blunt sense: "I'm obnoxious and noisy, but Chicago has the best damn health record in the world...
...seminary educated him, the church conferred priesthood on him and the hierarchy entrusted him with an apostolate. Furthermore, the practice of the virtue of poverty, enjoined on every priest, demands personal detachment from all worldly possessions, both in life and more so. in death." Other publications were more blunt. Complained the Jesuit monthly Miles Christi: "When priests draw their wills, 95% of their possessions end up in greedy relatives' hands, and the church is completely forgotten.* Priests always call on others to contribute to the church, but have little themselves to contribute in life and noth...
...chief of a government dominated by Belgian "advisers" and propped up by a 7,000-man Belgian army, Moise Tshombe looked mighty like a puppet of Brussels. Operating on this theory, Hammarskjold early last week sent one of his aides flying off to Belgium with a blunt appeal: Remove your forces from Katanga so the U.N. can take over. Within hours, the envoy flashed back word of Belgian acceptance and Hammarskjold happily went on the air with an announcement that U.N. troops would move into Katanga at week's end. Dag then sent the U.S.'s Ralph Bunche...
...Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., 44, onetime vice president of General Dynamics' Convair Division, was appointed vice president in charge of planning of the Fairbanks Whitney Corp., a big (1959 sales: $149 million), diversified manufacturing outfit. Lanphier's outspoken criticisms of the Administration's defense effort and blunt attacks on rival missile makers brought down the wrath of General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace, who forced Lanphier out. Lanphier then campaigned for his longtime friend, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, whose special assistant he had been when Symington was Secretary of the Air Force. When Symington lost...
...amplify Ike's promise of U.S. loans for social ends, such as housing and land reform. Instead, Eisenhower merely hoped in general for "concrete results in Bogota" in "economic development, technical assistance in industrial and agricultural production and further consideration of problems concerning basic products." Kubitschek sent a blunt and worried reply: "Your Excellency knows very well that words have no meaning for peoples of stagnated regions where life is continual sacrifice, patience and resignation...