Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Archaic work attitudes, ingrained class divisions, the tolerance of amateurism and inefficiency, governments unable or unwilling to keep shop-the list of Britain's ills goes on and on. Britain, which once ruled the world, now commands admiration for the poignant knack of "muddling through." In the current crisis the British may, or may not, muddle through again. But simply surviving it like all the previous ones, without effecting a revision from top to bottom of Britain's approach to the business of earning its way in the world, would be a hollow victory. Better perhaps would...
...gangling figure in baggy fatigues, Page has a frightening knack for being close-sometimes too close-to the action. Near Chu Lai last August, he took memorable LIFE color pictures of the Marine operation, as well as a painful piece of Viet Cong shrapnel in his rear. In the thick of the recent Buddhist revolt in Danang, Page was again working for LIFE when a rebel grenade exploded near his face and cost him two pints of blood before medics could patch up his eight wounds...
Stilwell's friends and family held out hope. For one thing, the missing plane was equipped with a four-man life raft, flares, and other emergency gear. Besides, Stilwell had always had his father's famed knack for survival. As leathery and almost as prickly as Vinegar Joe, he came to be known among his troops as "Cider Joe." A 1933 West Point graduate, Joe Stilwell won his combat spurs as a colonel in Burma campaign headquarters and as commander of the 23rd Infantry Regiment in Korea. From 1962 to 1964, he commanded the U.S. Support Group...
...people took it calmly enough, but the Mwami was terribly upset. "I am very unhappy," said the King. "This is my only son, but he has a knack for getting into trouble." Blaming extreme rightists for inciting Charles's move, he sent a telegram to the youth: "The royal authority has not been given to you in the proper manner, and I remain Mwami. I am willing to forgive you if you have the courage to broadcast this message to the nation. If not, your acts will be judged by history, as you are courting dangerous trouble." The father...
...also an audacious salesman whose knack for stretching a dollar impresses the investment bankers and makes him worth his annual salary of $132,000, second highest in the industry (after Pan Am Chairman Juan Trippe). Under Six, Continental has adopted "perpetual maintenance," a system that substitutes frequent brief overhauls for long layovers in the shop, helping to raise daily operating time of its aircraft to as much as 17 hours, well above the industry's norms. Six has been able to recruit outstanding executives. For seven years his No. 2 man was Harding Lawrence, now the successful president...