Word: chart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constantly competing for the President's attention, Moyers and his White House confreres live in a state of perpetual uncertainty. "An adviser's status," says Koenig, "is not something that can be settled and defined by resonant titles, explicit conferrals of authority, or the organization chart. Status is the subtle, changeable, but unmistakable florescence of the President's mind...
...tell him and she gets her punishment-the marriage is annulled. Keeping solemn tab on the retributions, not to mention the whole 32-character plot line, is the responsibility of Peyton Place's "story board." The board, consisting of three senior writers, and aided by a constantly updated chart presentation that probably has no counterpart outside the Pentagon's "war room," lays out each episode. Five junior writers then turn their scenarios into finished scripts. None of the eight writers is over 35; only two earn less than $1,000 a week. Expensive Trappings. But they have...
Deflation Dangers. The prime problem is a money shortage: international trade is growing much faster than the means to finance it (see chart). Because the world has no international money, it depends on a mix of gold and the two internationally recognized "reserve currencies," dollars and British pounds, to support commerce. Most of the recent growth of trade has been bankrolled by dollars flowing out of the U.S. in the form of investing and lending, tourism, foreign and military aid-thereby steadily worsening the U.S. balance of payments. Now Washington's "voluntary" curb on investment abroad has finally...
Twelve years ago his daughter came to him with a fertility chart, asked him what all the graphs and numbers meant. After puzzling over it for hours, Los Angeles Lawyer Maurice Gordon decided that the chart was far too complicated for the average woman to understand, set to work to invent a clock that would do the calculations automatically...
When World War II broke out, Mac enlisted as an army private after memorizing an optometrist's chart so that his poor eyesight wouldn't keep him out. He became an officer, was assigned as a military aide to Admiral Alan G. Kirk. In wartime London, Bill Bundy recalls, Mac knew all the right people. "He went to Harold Laski's soirees on Tuesday night and Lady Astor's on the weekend. It was a balanced ticket...