Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heard to remark recently that editors have little trouble warding off all kinds of discreet pressure from ''big business and big politics,'' but he found it harder to fend off people-including a number of his own colleagues-who, without the least subtlety, were eager to get their own prep school mentioned in the cover story. A good many of their schools turn up in the story, and would have anyway...
Still unanswered is what kind of government Sallal will give Yemen. San'a was thronged last week with hopeful advisers-sleek Egyptians, close-mouthed Russians, eager Yemenite exiles home for a new start. Electric light and water went on and off irregularly, and the royal palaces and guesthouses were jammed with sheiks squatting on the floor smoking water pipes, barefoot soldiers with tommy guns and kohl-eyed women who had daringly torn off their veils. Sheiks who spat qat on the carpets were reproved: ''Yemen is now a modern republic...
...legal quirk. The base commander, Rear Admiral Edward J. O'Donnell, has no authority to grant visas to the U.S., and even if he did have authority, the U.S. Cuban lease agreement of 1903 does not establish Guantánamo as a port of exit for Cuban citizens. Eager to give Castro no legal grounds for demanding annulment of the lease, which runs in perpetuity and can only be terminated by mutual consent, Guantánamo officers carefully explain to Cubans who slip past Castro's guards that they cannot be authorized to travel to the U.S. Result...
...shares of Howe Sound common at $15 a share ($4 above the previous closing price). Pechiney is principally interested in Howe Sound's Quaker State Metals division, which can roll out 120 million Ibs. of aluminum sheet and strip a year, but is also eager to get control of Howe's copper and brass rolling mills, its precision casting facilities and its dental and surgical products division...
...senatorial confirmation is not required. Woods has Black's backing and the support of Treasury Secretary Dillon and President Kennedy. That should be enough to get him the job, which traditionally goes to an American, since the U.S. holds 30% of the bank's stock. Woods is eager to take it on. Says his longtime friend, U.S. Disarmament Negotiator Arthur Dean: "Woodsie has climbed all the Mt. Everests there are to climb on Wall Street, and he has a yen for public service. He feels that we have tremendous problems with underdeveloped countries, and people with ability cannot...