Word: foresighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foresight & Influence. "It's impossible to give us credit for anything except fore sight," says Carnegie President John...
Gardner, 49, a deceptively casual Californian who took his doctorate in psychol ogy at the University of California at Berkeley. A prewar teacher at Mount Holyoke, Gardner is himself an example of Carnegie foresight. The corporation spotted him when he was a Marine Corps captain assigned to the OSS, and by 1955 he was president. One of the few top "philanthropoids" to rise through foundation ranks, Gardner is also one of the few with a gift for words. Gardner chiefly drafted the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's famed The Pursuit of Excellence, followed it with his own thoughtful book, Excellence...
...Governor was an early advocate of massive civil defense, then backtracked when he encountered opposition within the state. Now, heartened and apparently vindicated by the national C.D. undertaking, Rockefeller claims credit for great military foresight and political courage. This time he risked no opposition; Speaker Joseph F. Carlino rushed the bill through the State Assembly, while Rockefeller helped him to impugn the motives of those who warned of the shelter plan's implicit dangers...
...Well, nobody's perfect, and maybe these things will straighten out. The junta is full of foresight. Why, they planned elevators so large that even a hospital bed could fit into them--no trouble at all. Around that time, somebody figured that Harvard students were getting bigger all the time, and ordered a new shipment of extra-large beds which...
...group of fellow students at the Army's Command and General Staff College, I proposed the establishment of a national guerrilla force under U.S. Army auspices. I thought that I had come up with something original. It is most gratifying to learn that our citizenry still has the foresight to see a grim possibility and then to do something about...