Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's first sitting was a year and a half ago at Camp David outside Washington. The President showed up exhausted. "That massive head of his fell forward on his chest, he was so tired," recalls Hurd. Johnson's head nodded several times, and Hurd pitied him. "This is terrible," he said. "I wish you'd go have a siesta." "No," insisted Johnson. "I promised Bird that I would give you half an hour and I will do it." His head fell forward again, and at the end of exactly 30 minutes Hurd said compassionately: "That...
Inspiring as such examples seemed in print, to the level-headed men charged with running China on a day-to-day basis-from factory managers to government bureaucrats to party officials like Liu and Teng-it looked like the Great Leap Forward of 1958 writ large in madness. By its do-it-yourself backyard-foundry mania, Mao's Great Leap had cost China several years of economic growth. The new revolution was to be far more encompassing, and it also threatened the technocrats' jobs. In a factory run by Mao-think, who needs a manager or even...
...several months of necessary pre-tooling, plant preparation and design refinement. Beyond that, the U.S. supersonic, which is already three years behind the British-French Concorde, will be seriously delayed if funds are not forthcoming. "It is highly important," says Boeing President William M. Allen, "that we move forward as rapidly as is consistent with the production of a sound, viable airplane...
...similarity ends there. Princeton has experience -- Thomforde is the only sophomore in the starting five. They also boast incredible balance. Guard Joe Heiser (14.8), forward John Haarlow (13.8), forward and captain Ed Hummer (13.3) and speedy guard Gary Walters (10.8) have divided the scoring almost evenly with the big pivot...
...Johnson led the Crimson with 12 points. Johnson, who earned a starting slot when Jeff Grate was moved to forward to replace Chris Gallagher, had his second fine game in a row in a losing weekend. Bobby Beller had 11 points, and Bob Kanuth added...