Word: heel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's hardworking, high-living Charles Clore, 58, has built an empire since 1953 out of ships, manufacturing, real estate and shoes. But the cockney-born, self-made Midas turns out to have an Achilles' heel-or toe. Last week, announcing a 4% profit drop in 1962 for his huge, seven-company British Shoe Corp., Clore blamed the loss partly on what he called "the square-toe debacle...
...Cabinet walkout was intended to bring the Baathists to heel, and it well might. Isolated in power, with the street mobs sympathetic to Nasser and the army of uncertain loyalty, Baath's only available allies are the merchants and landowners, who most oppose Nasser's social objectives. Their embrace could be as fatal to Baath as Israel's would be to Hussein...
Though the economic health of Western Europe is good, the Continent is bothered by a troublesome Achilles' heel. The difficulty is the failure of postwar Europe to generate enough investment capital either to meet its own needs or to enable it to play an overdue role in world financing. So inadequate are its capital markets that Europe has to depend heavily on the New York money market, thus contributing to the U.S. balance of payments deficit...
...share of the spoils. When they insisted that Park fire Kim from the party leadership, Park retaliated by sacking four of Kim's bitterest foes from the junta. But the four, all high-ranking officers, threatened to plunge South Korea into civil war unless Park brought Kim to heel. "The entire army is against you," one officer told Park. "You cannot...
...shattered windows with rocks and ripe mangoes. It was Secessionist Moise Tshombe's way of replying to the U.S. decision last week to send a military mission to the Congo to see what equipment the United Nations force will need to bring his secessionist Katanga province to heel...