Word: candidness
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...downright embarrassing." A high point of "lobby observing" (as it is known to the trade) comes when an unwary caller, thinking himself alone, begins to preen and scratch while waiting for the answering buzzer. One tenant regularly warns his caller over the intercom: "Smile, you're on Candid Camera...
...though A. & P. expects profits to "catch up" once the heavy costs of installing the stamp plan are past. And when a stockholder asked whether recent price increases in A. & P. stores were caused by higher commodity prices or the cost of the stamps. Burger's reply was candid and joyless. "Both," he snapped...
TelAutograph, he said, "has never completed so little or lost so much." In general, however, this spring's improved earnings outlook (see above) seemed to reduce tensions between shareholders and management. At staid IBM's meeting, Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. set off general giggling with his candid explanation as to why the company was enlarging its collection of early scientific models rather than paintings. "My father was the art expert," he said dryly. "We have been turning more to collections of Leonardo da Vinci models-something I can understand." At many meetings, too, attendance was smaller than...
...Castro years, Cuba could count on about 5,000,000 tons of sugar, for which it got an average $500 million, most of it from the U.S. in preferential prices. Fortnight ago, Cuba's Minister of Industry, Che Gue vara, who, if nothing else, is the most candid of Cuba's new rulers, reported on this year's crop to a meeting of sugar workers: "The first thing we must say is that this harvest has been...
...inevitable tension between feeling and fact in the writing of history and social criticism. In the academic world this is considered unflinchingly honest procedure. In politics it passes for unpardonable naivete. And since in running for the Senate Hughes has been neither willing nor able to alter his candid style, he seems type cast for the part of Don Quixote...