Word: candor
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Looking squarely into the TV camera, the husky, blue-eyed Dutchman smiled disarmingly and had only one thing to say: "Gentlemen, I appreciate the opportunity of being president of Ford-and who wouldn't?" With such candor, John Dykstra. 63, acknowledged his elevation last week to the presidency of the nation's second biggest automaker (after General Motors). The appointment seemed to surprise him as well as everyone else...
...relations where the gray flannel suit and attache case are what count, the figure of Raymond W. Miller in a dark blue double-breasted suit, armed with an old, battered briefcase is an incongruity. In a profession where rats race, and ulcers quickly age the youngest junior executive, the candor and youthful exuberance of Mr. Miller, who is 66, is an anomaly...
...entire encounter--the story of a soldier and the nice girl he has almost picked up--is told quietly and with complete candor...
...athletes it was a week of remarkable candor on the issue of sportsmanship v. the profit motive. Gathered in Manhattan to attend a dinner in their honor, a clutch of All-Americas gave a New York Times reporter their jaundiced views on the drawbacks of "amateur" college football. Items...
...sequel to the blind Danish author's autobiographical novel of boyhood (The Stars Grow Pale) that is every bit as good as the first. The walls imposed by sightlessness and the desperate efforts to break through to contact with the life of the seeing are described with candor and beauty, without sentimentality or self-pity...