Word: general
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Westerners resent the bureaucratic decision to cut Amtrak service, something far more vital to Butte and Cheyenne than to Nashville or Columbus, and the general disregard of the gas crunch until it hit the East. Montana's Democratic Governor Thomas Judge, among other Western Governors, put out an urgent plea to the Department of Energy for help in securing diesel fuel for crop harvesting Said Judge: "I got absolutely nowhere I had to go out myself and buy 75,000 barrels from New York...
...Nixon's Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs, were chiefly with the French. But the French have also found ways to be accommodating. When Volcker stays in Paris, the Crillon Hotel installs the bed that was specially made for a famous 6-ft., 4-in. guest: General Charles de Gaulle. No other will hold the frame of the 51-year-old banker from New Jersey...
This is the kind of leadership toward which we are moving, a leadership of relatively anonymous people. That is the kind we have in organizations now. Fifty years ago, everyone knew who was the head of Ford, IBM or General Motors. Now nobody knows; what you get is collectivity...
...same time, the general level of critical intelligence and intense watchfulness means that leaders cannot creatively manipulate circumstances as easily, either for good or ill, as they did in the past. A political operator of genius, like Lyndon Johnson, would sink into depressed impotence under such restraints?as at last Johnson...
JAMES GAVIN, retired Army general and executive: I just can't find any outstanding leaders. Connally, but there's the milk scandal. Kennedy, but there's Chappaquiddick. The academic and business worlds are limited in their views. David Rockefeller is really good but strictly narrow in the application of his skills. There's George Ball, who has shown great versatility, but he doesn't have national stature...