Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While rounding out preconvention coverage with this story of a political family with no exact precedent in U.S. history. TIME'S editors selected the line-up of correspondents to cover the big event in Los Angeles. The Washington Bureau's Hugh Sidey, who has been dogging Jack Kennedy for months, will be doing the same thing at the convention next week. He will be one of a team that will include bureau chiefs from Washington. San Francisco, Detroit. Chicago and Dallas, reporters from various bureaus, and the entire National Affairs staff...
...Civil Rights Act of 1957. Furthermore, the Civil Rights Commission had been given a fact-finding mandate-as opposed to a judicial function-and "cannot take any affirmative action which will affect an individual's legal rights." Due process, said Warren, "is an elusive concept. Its exact boundaries are undefinable . . . When a general fact-finding investigation is being conducted, it is not necessary that the full panoply of judicial procedures be used." Similar rules of procedure govern the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities Exchange Commission and the grand jury, he noted. "The investigative process could be completely disrupted," wrote...
Sliding & Slipstreaming. Moss's own perfectionism is his greatest handicap, argues the London Daily Express's Basil Cardew, forcing him "to exact more from a car, because he makes it go faster, than possibly anyone we have known in the past." His demands have resulted in a long history of mechanical breakdowns and kept the Grand Prix championship beyond his reach. But Stirling Moss insists he can drive no other...
Emotional disturbance is no respecter of rank. Du Pont discovered in a study that management, supervisory and hourly paid employees had mental difficulties in the "exact" proportion to their numbers in the company. Contrary to the common belief that executives often break down because of the stress of work, psychiatrists have found that the great majority of mental difficulties have their source outside work, are usually only aggravated or brought to the breaking point by a tense on-the-job situation. That rule applies to the $4,000-a-year janitor as well as the $25,000 executive. Though...
...congressional approval. One fact that impresses Congress: his reputation for aggressive honesty. Says Bicks: "There is a certain luxury in not being talkable-to about a case. I make it clear to anyone who does so that I will be perfectly willing to testify under oath as to the exact nature of our conversation in precise detail...