Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand to attend a fellow exile's funeral in Mexico City two years later, Betancourt was warned by police to stay indoors because of a plot to assassinate him en route to the cemetery...
...that captures so many executives? Not salary, most executives agree-though the promise of fat stock options in the new job often helps. The real clincher, however, is most often the prospect of greater challenge. "I was delighted with my old job," says United Fruit President Sunderland, who was en ticed away from a vice-presidency at Standard Oil of Indiana. United Fruit's difficulties were what excited him. "I knew there would be great personal satisfaction in straightening those problems...
...these days of feature-oriented newspapers and vitamin-supplement television, the magazine industry is deathly sick. Only T.V. Guide and Playboy are thriving; Coronet has just gone the way of Collier's,and the Post is en route to financial ruin...
...Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery urged "one really powerful and full-blooded thrust toward Berlin" through northern Germany. "Clearly, Berlin is the main prize," Ike answered. He added that a slower, "broad front" advance would better accomplish the Allies' main object: destroying Germany's military strength. By moving en masse, the AEF would thus be able to seize the industrial heart of Germany (the Ruhr) before striking at its political heart (Berlin...
...interview published by LIFE recently, Roosevelt answered: "Impossible. I'm already committed." Weeks later, Ike made one last try; his personal Chief of Staff, General Walter Bedell Smith, futilely raised the question with Roosevelt and Churchill at a strategy conference in Malta, when the two leaders stopped there en route to Yalta...