Word: candidness
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President Kennedy is sensibly careful about what he says in public, but beyond the reach of microphones, cameras and recording devices, he is remarkably candid and salty in talking to staff and visitors about his hopes, plans, preoccupations and disappointments. Current J.F.K. opinions: Berlin. Despite the rumors of a U.S.Russian deal on Berlin-rumors set off by a sudden letup in Communist interference with Western road and air traffic into Berlin-no deal has been arrived at, and none is in sight...
...ingenuous, but she is also bright, forthright, candid and savvy. In conversation, she is an excellent listener. Her voice goes very small when she is lying. She has an exquisitely nutty sense of humor. When someone begins to tell her a joke about the papacy, she says: "I'm a good Catholic. I'm no supposed to listen. What is it?" For a Neapolitan, she has a remarkably subdued temper. "I get angry," she says, "once a year...
When Peter Grace became president at 32 in 1945, he had worked for the company less than ten years. "My father," he recalls, "wanted me to be president-much to the displeasure of a lot of people. I was scared." But candid, headstrong young Grace was not so frightened that he failed to see his company needed refurbishing. To beef up Grace's diminishing core of top executives, he personally set about hiring topflight new executives from Montgomery Ward, Coca-Cola and Jersey Standard. Simultaneously, he set up a statistical study division to find ways of overhauling Grace...
When Defense Secretary Robert McNamara advised the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be candid with Congress, he need not have passed the word to tough-talking Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay. LeMay always says what he thinks-and what he thinks is clear and consistent: U.S. long-range striking power is being neglected. LeMay fought for greater strategic bomber strength as boss of the Strategic Air Command, and last week he took on the Kennedy Administration with gusto. Taking blunt issue with McNamara's proposed 1962-63 budget, LeMay told the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee that...
...moved into the office left vacant last month by the death of J. Spencer Love, Burlington Industries' candid new President Charles F. Myers, 50, made it plain that the era of one-man rule had ended for the world's largest textile empire (1961 sales: $866 million). Says Myers in a rich Charleston accent: "No one will take the load that Mr. Love took. Management from now on will be a team operation." Lured away from a banking career during a series of tennis games with Love 15 years ago. Myers started off at Burlington as a financial...