Word: hurst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admission, Mrs. Margery Hurst is one of Britain's richest and most self-esteeming women. She has more reason than most for being both. At 51, she heads Britain's largest secretarial employment agency, London's Brook Street Bureau, which she herself founded in 1946 with a $200 loan. "I never thought for a moment that I could fail," says Mrs. Hurst. Her confidence in herself has not been misplaced. This week her Brook Street Bureau will take the unusual step of going public with the sale of 540,000 of its shares for more than...
...quarter of a million girls annually find jobs through the Brook Street Bureau, lured by its imaginative advertising and reputation for considerate treatment. They are hired by an impressive list of clients, including Philips, Monsanto, Woolworth, Pan American and Bendix, who pay dearly for the services of what Mrs. Hurst characterizes as "the Rolls-Royce of employment agencies." Brook Street carefully tests its girls for professional skills, personality and appearance, accepts only one out of every three it interviews, and refuses to place a shorthand typist unless she has had a minimum of three years' experience. In setting...
...When Hurst arrived in Camelot with the U.S. ambassador (played by 37-year-old Palo Alto Attorney Paul McCloskey Jr., a Marine reserve major), he was confronted by the local mayor, the regional governor, various American assistance officers, and Lancelot's army chief of staff, all of whom peppered the general with outrageous demands and entreaties. It was up to Hurst to field each demand, each new problem, and he played his part well, as General Krulak observed from a corner of the room...
Landing Party. Hurst had his hands full, and not the tiniest of his troubles was the demanding U.S. ambassador, who wanted more security for American citizens in Lancelot, insisted that the military negotiate with landowners for the use of any appropriated property, complained that a Marine vehicle had run over a native and that no doctor had been summoned. To top it off, the ambassador was sore as blazes because some petroleum facilities owned by an American who happened to be a personal friend of the President of the U.S. had been sabotaged by marauding guerrillas...
Even though he knew it was a war game, Hurst nearly lost his temper. "Frankly," he said with sincere asperity, "it's tried our patience. The fundamental problem with the ambassador has been a lack of mutual understanding. He doesn't understand the military problem...