Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crack clothing salesman working his way through U.C.L.A., Edward William Carter did so well that he went out and hired a boy to do nothing but write up his orders. "I never do anything," says Carter, "if I can get somebody else to do it." That philosophy of delegation has seemed to work. At 34 only eight years out of graduate school, Carter became the $60,000-a-year merchandise manager of the May Co. in Los Angeles. Today he is the president and chief executive of California's 28-store Broadway-Hale retailing chain which he has built...
Goethe was a notable philosopher, a crack professional scientist, a successful political administrator, a stylist second to none in German literature, a major novelist and dramatist, and probably the most richly expressive lyric poet who ever lived-a genius who differed in kind but not in degree from Dante and Shakespeare. He wrote a hundred times more than either of them-his collected works fill 150 volumes-and consequently more of what he wrote is dated; The Sorrows of Young Werther, for instance, reads in this unsentimental century like soap opera written in gold ink. But his finest works-Iphigenia...
...tough brigadier who commanded with virtual autonomy the 1,700 crack troops of the Armed Forces Training Center at San Isidro, nine miles east of Santo Domingo, Wessin y Wessin, 40, was the key man in the fall of President Juan Bosch's inept, Red-pampering government in 1963. He was one of the first to recognize Castroite influence in the pro-Bosch revolt against Donald Reid Cabral last spring (TIME cover, May 7). Calling for U.S. help, he sent his tanks and F51 fighters to contain the rebels in a corner of downtown Santo Domingo. For this...
...Since then, Wessin y Wessin had kept out of sight at San Isidro, silent and brooding. Then last week Provisional President Hector Garcia-Godoy bowed to the rebels with a decree abolishing Wessin y Wessin's command. That brought the general to life. The San Isidro airbase radio crack led with bitter charges of Communist influence on Garcia-Godoy: "Again, we are on the alert!" The threat of renewed fighting sent waves of panic through Santo Domingo. Both the OAS and the U.S. agreed that Wessin y Wessin...
...cease-fire line and occupied half a dozen abandoned Pakistani outposts. Seemingly encouraged by the silence of Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, India stepped up the tempo. In the Punch-Uri area, the Indians advanced fully 25 miles. Toward the end of August, four battalions of crack Indian troops drove the Pakistanis from two vital passes and claimed to have killed 62 and captured 14 of the enemy...