Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oklahoma's Carl Albert, 53, currently the Democratic whip and a party workhorse who is well liked by the White House. But since the majority leadership leads toward the Speaker's chair and McCormack himself is not likely to be a long-term incumbent, Albert may have eager opposition. Dick Boiling, 45, is one possibility, and so is Alabama's Albert Rains, 59, a moderate who gets along well with both the party's Northern and Southern blocs in the House...
Chicago was the consummation of all of Herold Hunt's ambitions in the administrative end of his profession. In 1953 he accepted President Conant's offer to come to Harvard (at half his Chicago salary). He was eager, he said, "to give back to education the lessons learned in the last thirty years...
Gravy Train. Bryant's salesmanship paid off. A steady stream of sturdy stalwarts rode the gravy train to the oak-dotted Tuscaloosa campus, eager to knock heads and - in Bryant's words - "suck up their guts" for dear old 'Bama. Halfback Mike Fracchia (6 ft. 1 in., 186 lbs.) came from Memphis, Tenn., because "I wanted to play on a good team and I knew Coach Bryant was going to turn one out." Among Bryant's first batch of hand-picked recruits were two of Alabama's brightest stars: Quarterback Pat Trammell and Tackle Billy...
Better than Texas. Eager to begin operations, Conch has already signed contracts with British shipbuilders for two 28,000-ton methane tankers worth $10 million each, is busily dickering for more frozen-gas customers in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. And even though the U.S. is liberally crossed with gas pipelines, several East Coast and Southern California utilities are studying the economics of using liquid methane to extend their fuel supplies when demand finally overtaxes the pipelines. Convinced that the British deal is only a beginning. Conch boasts: "We can deliver liquefied gas from Africa or Arabia to Japan...
Ambition for a career recedes. That "interesting little job in New York for a few years before marriage" seems less and less attractive: the girl whose eager mind plumbed Milton pictures herself glumly making coffee for the boss. Business, she finds, snaps up young men for their potential, but hires women only for what they can do-temporarily. Don't all working girls soon quit to get married...