Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Robert Allen Futterman, 33, steely-minded dynamo of the real estate industry who in seven years of 100-hour work weeks rose from a $300-a-month Manhattan rent collector to the presidency of his own corporation, boasting $100 million assets in 27 cities; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Manhattan...
...full retreat from Hitler's Panzers toward the Channel ports when Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill's Secretary of State for War, gave the only command possible -the evacuation of the army from Dunkirk, the last northern French port left in Allied hands. Ironically, it was called Operation Dynamo. At first, the job seemed impossible, and officers gloomily reckoned on saving no more than 45,000 men. German bombers had ruined Dun kirk's seven modern dock basins. Because the beaches were shallow, small craft were needed, and the navy, in a brilliant recruiting operation, found them...
...center court last week like a souped-up Nijinsky. The gallery loved it. What had been shaping up as the dullest Wimbledon tournament of the century was suddenly infused with zest and excitement, and the credit belonged entirely to the 20-year-old, 5-ft. 8-in., 163 lb. dynamo from St. Louis. "Chunky Chuck looks like a rock but moves like a dragonfly," said a British newsman. Marveled the London Times: "He plays most of the time with both feet off the ground...
...member of the new White House family who is getting the biggest buildup by colleagues as the Administration's "strongman" is McGeorge Bundy, 41, Kennedy's special assistant on national security affairs. Yaleman Bundy earned his reputation as a dynamo at Harvard, where he became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at 34, and, soon afterward, a force on university administration councils. Kennedy is well aware of Bundy's growing prestige and says with a chuckle: "I think I'll continue to have residual functions...
...drama in First Family comes from the interplay between two families, the colored McKinleys and the white Charleses. Mr. McKinley is a sedate, scholarly classics teacher. He has a self-effacing sister and a gangling, precocious, twelve-year-old son named Scotty. The family dynamo is Rachel - a cool, lovely, relentless wife and mother. She intends to put her shoulder behind the integration issue, and her shoulder consists most ly of chip. As Rachel puts it: "I don't mind disturbing people a little. It's my idea to make them think about what they're like...