Word: director
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...year job, Herb York will need all the wit and vision he can muster. By title, he will be Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's Director of Research and Engineering, will have supervisory control over the $2.5 billion Defense Department scientific projects-but no scientific budget of his own. Enmeshed in the program are all the stubborn duplications, fears and rivalries of different services whose planners and dreamers demand a separate piece of the wild-blue-yonder projects. The Air Force, for example, got miffed at ARPA when ARPA's Johnny-come-lately Boss Roy Johnson took much...
...Beyond specific skills and techniques, veterans have a certain sense of confidence for having worked at their generation's job, learned some of its toughest lessons as youngsters. Hollywood Writer-Director Richard (The Blackboard Jungle) Brooks, 46, a Marine rifleman in the Marianas campaign, tries to sum up one tough-minded discovery. "Before...
...eyes of most Europeans, the likely gains far outweigh the risks. Return to convertibility, said Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, "is an outward and visible sign of the comeback of Europe in world affairs." More important yet, it went a long way toward establishing the climate of economic freedom in which international trade and investment have historically flourished. And it was only by establishing such a climate that mid-20th-century Europe, shorn of its empires, could achieve long-term prosperity and political health...
Chiang had already pointed to a successor last year by adding the premiership to the other duties of his old comrade-at-arms Vice President Chen Cheng (TIME, July 14). But the Gimo himself intends to keep things in hand by retaining the powerful director-generalship of the Kuomintang Party...
...Hollywood premiere, Director Vincente Minnelli laid a proud parental hand on the young shoulders of daughter Liza, 12, strikingly close to being a doe-eyed, wonder-struck replica of her mother, Songstress Judy Garland Luft...