Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Howard proves to be executive material, becoming expert at self-effacing chuckles and patterning his sales messages on the speeches of Richard Nixon. He moves on from Fraser-Blau to the folks at Ritter Pfaud, from the Zayre Corp. to the Udylite people, finally reaching zenith with the "management group of Mr. Grunewald's organization, a firm widely respected for its pioneering work in the development of inert ingredients...
...proposed tax increase, the one expected point in the President's address, would be in the form of a six per cent surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes. This means simply that all taxpayers (expert for lower-income heads of families and single persons earning less than $1900 per year) would pay an additional six per cent of their present tax assessments...
...Choice. So, once again, the U.S. was reacting to rather than anticipating an event. Administration officials would have done better to acknowledge earlier on their own initiative what every military expert has long known was inevitable: that some civilians would be killed in U.S. raids. In failing to do so, they not only helped to widen the "credibility gap," which is already causing Lyndon Johnson considerable trouble at home, but enabled Hanoi to use the Salisbury reports to stir up a virulent new round of anti-Americanism from London to New Delhi. Even France's normally prudent Le Monde...
...loss of Emerson and Stolle could cripple Australia's Davis Cup chances next year-although the loss of Ralston, in the view of one expert, just might boost U.S. chances for the cup. Said Aussie Coach Harry Hopman: "I don't think America will miss Ralston from the team. He did not have a very good record in Davis Cup matches...
...Charles Davis is England's leading Roman Catholic theologian. A peritus (expert) at the Second Vatican Council, he has been editor of the Clergy Review, a provocative intellectual monthly aimed at priests, professor of theology at Jesuit-run Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, and has written several well-reviewed theological tomes. Understandably, England's Catholics were shocked last week when Father Davis announced that after 20 years as a priest he was leaving the church. Compounding the shock, Davis, 43, also said that he intended to marry an American Catholic, Florence Henderson, 36, of Farmingdale, N.Y., a theology student...