Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often found in the military a primary source of modernizing influence. In the case of Vietnam, he says, Diem was "really the centralizer and the modernizer" but he was unsuccessful in trying to unify a diverse country "from the top down." Ky, Huntington feels, has "natural political flair. He flies planes, he wears purple scarves, everyone has heard of him; he has made a deep impression on the public conscience...
...dancer is a stripling of 30 (compared with 40 at the New York City Ballet). Many of the cheers this season, in fact, went to a pair of wet-behind-the-ears gambolers, elfin Robert Blankshine, 18, and athletic Luis Fuente, 21. The company's cheekiness and dramatic flair help strengthen the cause of American ballet by leaps and bounds...
Knudsen, who has headed both the Chevrolet and Pontiac divisions, is the son of a popular former G.M. president. He lacks Cole's flair, would be more in the Donner-Roche tradition. Rollert, a Buick alumnus, is considered a comer, but he has been an executive vice president only since February 1966, and it would be a surprise if he were leapfrogged over the others...
...20th year as the first president of Brandeis University, Abram L. Sachar, 68, announced last week that he plans to retire as soon as a successor can be found. A passionate, strong-willed administrator whose phrasemaking flair and public charm raised $160 million to build the school from scratch, Sachar told the Brandeis trustees that the university needs a "reappraisal that new leadership can provide." The board voted to create for Sachar the advisory post of chancellor, in which he will continue to exercise his fund-raising talents. Sachar insists that his new job "will not impinge on the authority...
Despite the strike, the Ford Motor Co. last week displayed some of its leading entries in the 1968 model sweepstakes-and did it with a flair. Greeting the press at the La Costa Country Club in Carlsbad, Calif.-about as far from the Detroit picket lines as the company could get-Ford Division Manager M. S. ("Matt") McLaughlin buoyantly said that dealers will soon have 67,000 of the '68 models on hand. He also managed to seem happy while noting that 158,000 of the '67s are waiting to be sold at a buyer's price...