Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generations on end, the Greeks have gone into shipping as their natural calling, reassured by an ancient Hellenic proverb that the sea never freezes. Stavros Spyros Niarchos, 55, a trim, dapper Greek and a former brother-in-law of Magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis, has carried on the tradition with flair and fabulous success, now owns a fleet of 74 tankers and freighters whose stacks bear the white "N" known in every port. But Niarchos, who became the world's largest independent shipowner, is ready to change course. Last week the word was out that his whole fleet...
...left Denver for a better-paying job on the Los Angeles Times (TIME, Jan. 31). Although the Post passed over a field of 50 domestic applicants to hire Oliphant, the choice had a certain inevitability. His draftsmanship bears comparison to Conrad's, and he has the same flair for tapping the comic vein. To make sure that the Post got his point, Oliphant, who had read of Conrad's resignation in TIME, wasted no time bidding for the job, sending along samples of his work from the Adelaide Advertiser...
...name of Mason Jarrett, but he strongly resembles guntherized Gunther. A rumpled bear of a man, working for a Chicago paper, he covers all southeastern Europe from Istanbul to Prague. Jarrett also has Gunther's herculean capacity for hard work, his shrewd journalistic intuition, the same flair for intimate background stories about nations and their leaders; and he is in on every major event from Austria's abortive 1931 attempt to form a customs union with Germany to its four-day civil war in February 1934, when the fascist Heitnwehr militia crushed the socialists. Despite Gunther...
...unfortunate public nickname in years. But what kind of name has Lady Bird made for herself? Reaction to her so far has been politely cool. Says Maggie Daly, columnist for Chicago's American: "She looks like every well-dressed woman of means. She does not have any special flair." Observes Françoise Giroud, co-editor of Paris' L'Express: "Lady Bird is the sort of person quí ne provoque pas les sentiments-she does not evoke feelings. Who cares about a grey lady bird?" And in London, a BBC executive snorted...
...confined to the air, Lockheed's flair is currently being applied to projects on land and under the sea. Pushed to spread out and diversify by Chairman Courtlandt Gross, company engineers are building a $12 million dam in Wyoming, have developed a monorail system to relieve weary pedestrians at large airports and shopping centers, and are designing shipping containers that can be used interchangeably in truck, rail, sea and air transport. Lockheed is also working on a 300-ton hydrofoil vessel for the Navy, designing a shell-shaped undersea workboat that will carry a crew around the ocean floor...