Word: ike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awesome new dimension to presidential responsibility, though the first two nuclear-age Presidents had a nice way of not taking themselves too seriously. Truman was fond of remarking that any of a million other men (this was pre-Women's Lib) were as well qualified to be President. Ike had a genial instinct that the republic would still be standing tomorrow morning if he played a round of golf this afternoon...
...persuade Roosevelt to select Harry Truman as running mate in 1944, then later emerged as a member of Truman's own "Kitchen Cabinet." When his old friend Dwight Eisenhower, whom he had met during World War II, won the presidency in 1952, the affable-and durable -Allen became Ike's frequent golfing partner and companion...
...Jesuits' Roman headquarters, a severe, palazzo-ike building on Borgo Santo Spirito, a stone's throw from St. Peter's, Arrupe still emulates Japanese ways. In the tiny private chapel off his room, he prays, sitting Zen-style on a cushion, each morning and evening that he is there. Often he is not. Though previous Jesuit generals stayed close to Rome, Arrupe has logged 200,000 miles on more than 30 trips. Says an aide: "His face lights up when he's on the road...
Life assessed the Eisenhower years favorably, though concluding that Ike "had rather reigned than ruled." This elicited an extraordinary letter from Ike to Luce, in which the President explained why he had been "too easy a boss." One reason: "The government of the U.S. has become too big, too complex ... for one individual to pretend to direct [its] details." Luce had learned a similar lesson about Time...
Says Steven Brenner, 25, a young Chicago manufacturing executive: "They provide more services for their people. They may not have more than we do, but they seem to make better use of what they have." Ilus ("Ike") Davis, former mayor of Kansas City, adds: "Europeans in some ways have made a better adjustment to living together in cities than we have. They have found a compromise between respect for and use of the craftsman and the need for mass-produced goods. They have developed a reserve which makes living together more bearable...