Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TALL, patrician, impeccably tailored in grey suits, elegantly aloof, Maurice Couve de Murville is the epitome of the ideal senior civil servant. In his search for an efficient and obedient administrator to carry out his reforms, General de Gaulle instinctively turned to Couve, reflecting his own reordering of France's priorities. For the past ten years, Couve de Murville has carried out De Gaulle's most cherished policies -those of making France seem great in the world again. Now that De Gaulle intends to direct his attention to healing France's internal ills, he has elevated...
...jobs to have time for much complaining. "Nobody goes around here wondering what he is doing and why," notes Master Sergeant Eugene Bostock, a member of the 941st Air Force Reserve Group at McChord Air Force Base south of Tacoma, Wash. "It's a good group," says Bostock, a grey-haired veteran of World War II and Korea. "But I'm not naive enough to believe that McChord would fall apart if we weren't here...
Natkin: How about a grey flannel...
Westbrook: Grey flannel is out. How about a turtleneck...
Indeed, about the only grey area in an otherwise cheery outlook is foreign competition, which continues to cut into Detroit's market. The Big Four have not retaliated with minimodels of their own, but plans are on the drawing boards. Meanwhile, the invaders-led by Volkswagen, Opel and Toyota-are expected to sell 900,000 cars this year, up 119,500 from...