Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such talent for detail, priceless in a staff officer, can be disastrous in a commander, and some senior NATO officers were worried that Gruenther would let details distract him from broader thinking. "But we found that he is able to clear his mind and his desk with lightning speed," says one SHAPE officer. "He never abandoned the detail; he simply operates brilliantly on two levels instead...
OPERATING EFFICIENCY (650 points out of 700): "As of now, the atmosphere at the Vatican exudes efficiency . . . From the time clocks for all personnel to the extraordinarily long hours of the Pope himself, one senses an immensity of detail that is handled quickly and handled well ..." Great decisions are often made quickly, despite protocol and secrecy. "Literally everything is kept under lock and key. The Pope carries the key to his own desk." The notion that the Vatican moves slowly arises from operations "where time is not consequential," e.g., definition of dogma and creation of saints...
...Mass, jail and barked, "Gimme an aspirin, will you?" He was Joseph James ("Specs") O'Keefe, 47, and he had been talking almost continuously for three days. Outside, on the streets of Boston and all over the U.S., newspapers repeated Specs' story in huge headlines and minute detail; after six years, the $2,775,395 Brink's Inc. robbery, the largest cash haul in U.S. history, was solved...
...such a large and subtle character to draw, that the studio hired a gifted novelist, Christopher Isherwood, to write the script for this picture. No wonder that expense was damned in the effort to make settings splendid and costumes rich, and all authentic to the period in the least detail. By all that literary art and cinematic craft could do, the way was prepared for the heroine of history, and suddenly, in a sputter of high heels and a clatter of false eyelashes, she arrives on the scene-the most cultivated woman of the French Renaissance: Lana Turner...
Masters made good in and out of combat. His descriptions of camp and barracks life often seem trivial in detail, but in the end they tell what it was that kept generations of Englishmen in a service that had little to offer but comradeship, pride in outfit and a sense of duty. Masters does not pretty up military service, and he does not try to pretty up India. Yet he obviously loved them both and manages to convey the quality of his. affection. His story closes in 1939 when, at 25, he was still a lieutenant in an army that...