Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became Editorial Chairman. He spent more time at his home in Phoenix, maintained a less hectic schedule, traveled more. But he continued to send a stream of letters, memos and clippings to New York. He made several speeches a year (he always wrote his own), continued to help the Presbyterian drive, and accompanied a group of business leaders on a TIME-sponsored trip to Eastern Europe last fall...
...face of TV in 1951. In addition to its value to the art of cinema documentary, it heightened Luce's already considerable interest in the place of pictures in journalism. "Pictures cannot tell all," Luce wrote in launching THE MARCH OF TIME. "But what pictures can tell (with the help of a word or two), they tell with a force, an explicitness, an overwhelmingness which reportorial words can rarely equal." Recognizing that photojournalism was not merely a sideline of journalism but an independent branch of the craft, Luce decided to start a picture magazine...
...retiring stance as the ambassador's husband did not suggest that he ever had any reluctance to challenge the top figures of government. On his way to interview the Emperor of Japan, he asked his companions to help him frame an unusual question: How would you ask the Emperor how it felt to be a mortal and no longer revered as a god? He himself then proceeded to frame the question, simply and in a dignified manner that robbed it of any impertinence. He was a frequent visitor at the White House, particularly during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...
Change of Tactics. Peking issued pleas to China's 500 million peasants to make certain that spring planting gets under way, and the army was ordered to pitch in and help down on the farm. After nine months' holiday, nearly all primary and some secondary schools were reopened. Skilled government and party workers were being restored to their jobs and to official favor. Above all, as a Central Committee directive made plain, the new theme was unity, specifically a "threeway alliance" among the army, the Red Guards and the party cadres. In one Kweichow cotton mill, reported...
...votes, out of 11 million cast (in a population of 27 million). Going to work on the country's feeble economy, Park devalued Korea's inflated currency, lured new investment with tax concessions and low-wage labor and started a five-year development plan. To help pay the bills, Park even ignored virulent anti-Japanese feelings in Korea and normalized trade and diplomatic relations with Korea's former overlord. In return, Japan came through with $800 million in loans and grants...