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Take It or Leave It. To walk the tight rope between private enterprise and government-and keep both happy-requires a delicate sense of balance. Levy has it. Speaking with an arresting German-Oxford accent, he can be as blunt in personal conversation as he is careful when it comes to delivering voluminous written reports for a potentate or an oil magnate. His ability to steer a middle course through the troubled waters of oil disputes has landed him as consultant in such hot spots as Suez and Iran. In 1959, he met privately with India's Prime Minister...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara stood at complete and unmilitary ease behind the lectern on the stage of the State Department auditorium. In cool and well-punctuated sentences, with never an uh or an er, he recited fact after fact, figure after figure, in response to the blunt questions of newsmen...
...might have been gentle about it, allowing negotiations to sputter out in a confusion of details. He chose to be blunt...
...hotel industry today is at a point of crisis." This was the blunt message that Roger P. Sonnabend, thoughtful, 37-year-old executive vice president of Hotel Corp. of America, recently delivered to a convention hall full of his competitors. Scarcely anyone in his audience was prepared to disagree-or to deny that the U.S. hotel industry has been heedlessly drifting toward the crisis point for more than a decade...
...FOREIGN AID: U.S. military and foreign aid added some $3 billion to the payments deficit in 1962, and, says Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa, "the blunt fact is that these claims on our balance of payments will continue...