Word: candids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said one colleague. "And he's just about as trustworthy." Joe was liked and respected in college, liked and respected in the Marines, liked and respected in his home town. Within five minutes or so, everyone he meets is calling him "Joe." At 41, he has a candid eye for a pretty girl, but he has never married. "I can't work at politics if I can't stay away from supper when I want to," says Joe. He dotes on children, to whom he talks gravely as equals...
Wilson had good reason for his candid answer. When he decided last winter that the U.S. needed a second boost in aluminum capacity, he wanted to get it from those who had the know-how to supply it -Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser, the industry's Big Three. But Celler, who heads a House subcommittee investigating monopolies, objected. The U.S. had just beaten down Alcoa's monopoly, said he; now it was threatened by an "oligarchy" in aluminum. When the Justice Department gravely nodded its head in agreement...
...apprentice barber. At 21, he opened a shop of his own in Natchez and prospered. When he married, in 1835, he was a solid man of property, owner of four slaves and the most prosperous barbershop in town. That same year, he began to keep a shrewd and candid diary; when he died in 1851, shot in a boundary dispute by a half-breed, the diary filled 2,000 pages. Rediscovered almost 90 years later in the attic of his old house, William Johnson's Natchez is one of those authentic windfalls that period scholars festoon with footnotes...
Early & Late. But if U.M.T. is to work, it will have to be meshed with an effective reserve. And there lies the trouble. The Army's present ramshackle and disorganized reserve system needs drastic overhauling. Candid Pentagoners say that the National Guard is wobbly, often clique-ruled, often riddled with politics, should either be abolished or strictly disciplined its overage officers retired, its 33% yearly turnover halted. The half-equipped, half-manned Organized Reserves, twice as big as the Guard and about 50% officers, also needs to be taken in hand. Each organization is powerful. Is the Defense Department...
...interest was Egyptology. This was very encouraging, and he went on to say how the present world situation was all reflected in the history of Egypt, with its changes of dynasties. But when he started to talk about art, and mentioned his visit to the Louvre: "To be quite candid the Louvre reminded me of an old attic; all the stuff they have up there is so old." That a student of Egyptology should come to such a conclusion sounded a little strange...