Word: candidness
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...been captured by the Jordanians after attempting to infiltrate Amman at the head of an Al-Fatah commando team, rambled on for nearly three hours, spilling hitherto unknown details of P.L.O. terrorist plots and the inner workings of the guerrilla organization. Why had Abu Daoud been so candid? Had he been tortured into cooperation? Was he, as the Israelis still suspect, a Jordanian double agent? And why, after his release from prison in Amman, had he not been punished or even liquidated by the comrades whose secrets he had blabbed...
...running the union will be his great popularity; he is among the most admired men ever to serve the U.A.W. Rank-and-filers have never considered him a "pork-chopper," their term for a high-hat leader. They like his unpretentious ways-he often wears a turtleneck shirt-and candid talk. Sample: when "job enrichment," the idea of making workers' jobs more rewarding psychologically, was a fashionable subject in the early 1970s, Fraser remarked bluntly that the best way to enrich an auto assembler's job was to give him more paid time away from...
...think that the economy is going to be worse on January 20 than it is now," says Thomas Bertram Lance, the little-known Atlanta banker who is Jimmy Carter's choice to be director of the Office of Management and Budget. It is a sample of the candid views he will be offering as an economic policymaker-and his long and close relationship with Carter guarantees that the President-elect will listen. Last week Lance talked with TIME Correspondent John Berry about Administration strategy, Carter's relations with businessmen and his own job. Among his views...
When he was here at Harvard last year as a Nieman fellow, Percy P. Qoboza, editor of the black South African community's largest newspaper, said he did not worry about his government's reaction to his candid statements against apartheid during his stay...
Bruno, that bundling bastion of gentlemanly grappling, revealed in a candid expose in Ft. Worth last Tuesday that when he finally throws in the crown and hangs up his multidimensional belt of heroes (for you newlyweds, his men's Worldwide Heavyweight title (he too will take the plunge, scalpelwise...