Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long lunch with Dean Acheson, followed by high praise for Acheson's outlook on foreign affairs, and there was a long private talk with a few reporters about what a crackerjack Defense Secretary Robert McNamara is. The President talked so convincingly of tight budgeting with visiting U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Edwin Neilan that Neilan, a registered Republican, emerged from the oval office to say that he might even vote for Johnson. "I don't always vote a straight ticket," he said, smiling. "I think I'll reserve judgment...
Last week, rising to make his maiden speech in the Brazilian Senate, Senator Arnon de Mello, 52, looked uneasily toward the back of the chamber. "I will speak today," he began, "with my eyes turned to Senator Silvestre Péricles de Góes Monteiro, who . . . who . . . who has threatened to kill me today." "Swine," roared Góes Monteiro, 67, charging down the aisle. Mello drew his Smith & Wesson .38, ducked behind a seat-and fired twice. An old hand at political gunplay, Góes Monteiro whipped out his own .38, but another Senator jumped him before...
...roly-poly ruler of Renaissance Bavaria, diamonds were a duke's best friend. Albrecht V nearly emptied the privy purse in 1565 to buy the 27 jewel-studded pieces-primarily cups and goblets-that formed the original Schatzkammer (treasure chamber) of the Wittelsbach family, which ruled Bavaria from 1180 to 1918. But to Albrecht, competing for glory with monarchs from Madrid to Moscow, it was worth every pfennig. Over the centuries, the treasure grew in splendor and size; its 1,224 pieces rank it with the four largest royal treasure chambers that survived the decline of Europe...
...comes and the problem is gone." Yet these reliefs are short-lived, and Chayes hopes to return to teaching in a few years. Before he returns, he wants to go to Europe for a vacation. "The pace has been almost too quick here, and I need a de-compression chamber before I can readjust...
Meritocracy. Financial writers call Hyman "the Professor," partly because of his enthusiasm for art and 18th century chamber music, partly because he insists that his companies are "a post graduate school in business methods." Recruiting from Oxbridge and technical schools alike, Hyman heads the youngest and one of the most skillful executive teams of any British corporation. While the average British director is 61, energetic Hyman is 42, and his staff includes a company director of 27 and a mill manager of 25. "I want to attract the same class of mind that goes into the Treasury or Foreign Office...