Word: boosterism
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...afternoon came from a noncongressional Republican who had driven over from the White House to help heap on the honors. Praising Hall for showing a political newcomer how to avoid mistakes. President Eisenhower said: "If Leonard Hall runs for governor of New York, he is going to have one booster here in Washington. He has never even told me whether he wants to do it. But I just want to show he has got one supporter...
...many important jobs including trying to save suicides. Lt. Paul Touchette, head of the Rescue Squad, says his squad has never been able to save a Harvard suicide. "At least its nice to be able to say," said Touchette, a member of the Harvard Band and an avid Harvard booster, "That Harvard men do a professional job, and never botch...
...announced that he is "one booster" for Hall, and even if he is the only one, he pulls a lot of weight. Moreover, it is a pretty rare thing when a President, and particularly President Eisenhower, puts on the pressure. Mr. Roosevelt, a former Governor of New York, learned how to do his pressuring sub rosa, and Mr. Hall has probably learned the same technique. But Ike, an affable fellow, hasn't. He has thrown himself right into the middle of a nice, friendly fight in the Empire State, and it seems unlikely that he will emerge unscathed. Without...
Sick Shell. Duncan gets a sense of dislocation as soon as he hits the once-sleepy town of Bradysboro and hears a booster babbling about the "threshold of a new era." At his family's disintegrating tobacco plantation, he finds his father a sick shell, echoing with remembrances of the South's past and pointedly deaf to the whistle of a passing train. Duncan's sister is about to marry a progressive-minded preacher who is less interested in racial equality than he is in evening the score with erstwhile "first families" like the Welshes. Logan...
Through its own training program, General Electric discovered that the flow of ideas from its middle-echelon executives increased 300%. International Business Machines is a brainstorm booster; Chrysler Corp. has tried it, and so have Union Carbide & Carbon, Celanese Corp., American Oil Co., U.S. Steel, Radio Corp. of America, Boeing Airplane Co. Even if the ideas themselves are unworkable, the discussion shakes up workers and bosses alike. Says Chrysler's William D. Merrifield, boss of the company's industrial education program: "The main thing is 'to develop a climate among your executives that is favorable...