Word: careering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embraced him, and even had the CIA engineer a coup to restore him to power in 1953. Corruption, dislocations of life and profoundly disorienting social change all accompanied his rule; so did political suppression and the tortures of SAVAK, his secret police. The U.S. was inextricably implicated in the career of this potentate-Ozymandias and Faust-and shared the people's judgment of him when it came...
Last week Choi Kyu Hah, 60, the 6-ft, mild-mannered career bureaucrat who served as Foreign Minister and Premier under Park and became Acting President after the killing, was chosen as his country's new head of state by a 96% majority of the 2,560-member electoral college called the National Conference for Unification. Though Choi (rhymes with jay) was the sole candidate and is nominally able to serve the five years remaining in Park's current term, there were signs that he wanted to limit his tenure in Seoul's presidential Blue House...
...Lillian Gish has finally become slightly age sensitive. "Whenever I tell anyone what's on my birth certificate," complains the stage and movie actress, who began her career as a child and became a silent screen star with late Sister Dorothy, "they always add a few years." But Gish is not altogether bashful about her fourscore and three. Holding court at a White House reception last week honoring the performing arts, she recalled the first time she and Dorothy were invited to the presidential mansion. It was for a special showing of their movie, Orphans of the Storm...
...Greene, the Imperfect 2½. Greene, 32, a Chicago Tribune columnist, has joined the ranks of four-color sex symbols with his own 16-in. by 22-in. poster. The work depicts him posing in a motel room door, his shirt slashed to the navel. Greene's pinup career began when he set out to do a column on the superstar poster business and called Marketcom/Crosswinds Corp., a Fenton, Mo., firm specializing in posters of big-name athletes. "One thing led to another, and we decided he could be a sex symbol," says Ron Michel, the company...
Robert J. Ginn Jr., director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning (OCS-OCL), said yesterday he has "already seen a better job market" this year, reflected by an increase over last year in the number of companies that recruited January graduates this fall. Ginn said he expects the number of companies that recruit at Harvard this spring to exceed the number for last spring...