Word: driving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Executive Drive. By working hard at it, Symington has managed in recent months to improve his performance as a speechmaker. He still flops sometimes, but in New Castle last week, speaking without notes, he got himself across, livening his talk with touches of humor and personal history that rarely show up in his written speeches. Facing an audience sprinkled with steelworkers, he pointed to his days in the foundry: "I've poured my share of iron. I've stoked open hearths." Said a steelworker: "The guy's O.K. He's been in the mills. He knows...
...nearly every state, Stuart Symington has a few devoted, eager backers who are ready to pledge faith and funds to his cause. Most have helped him fight his battles through administrative Washington, or watched from neutral corners while his intense drive brought stale government alive. The quality of executive drive is a tough one to merchandise from a political platform, no matter how handsome the driver. But a man who is already endowed with the negative assets and the positive cause of defense, and who is already the professionals' second choice, could reasonably see a chance to wind...
...adventure before settling down to careers when Armstrong turned up in Paris on his own Fulbright to do research in Chinese literature at the Sorbonne. Soon, they had enlisted two more companions-another Frenchman, Jean Pillu, 25, and another American, Donald Shannon, 28, of Milwaukee. Their ambition: to drive the 8,500 road miles from Paris to Johannesburg...
...Handel-was studded with wrong notes and blurred acrobatics. But it also had the kind of galvanizing effects that only a first-rate musical mind and heart can convey to an audience. Richter-Haaser's approach, particularly in the "Appassionata," was heroic, his tone boldly ringing, his rhythmic drive irresistible. In the Stravinsky piece, he may have lacked the proper corky bite, but his Brahms had a propulsive, thunderous intensity that swept his audience into a roar of applause...
...only slightly higher sales than last year, its directors recommended a two-for-one stock split, boosted the annual dividend rate from $2 to $2.40. For Westinghouse, the nation's oldest (73 years) and second largest electrical equipment maker (first: General Electric), the split climaxed a three-year drive to reorganize the company and recover from a crippling five-month 1955-56 strike...