Word: lax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JESSE CURRY, 51, chief of the Dallas Police Department, drew volcanic criticism for allowing reporters and cameramen at police headquarters to all but dictate his handling of Oswald and for setting up security standards so lax that it was easy for Ruby to shoot Oswald while the U.S. watched on television. Curry suffers from high blood pressure, seldom appears in public now, but his job is considered safe, for if Dallas officials fired him they would be in effect admitting the city's responsibility for the shameful affair...
...benefit from education abroad. In its own cosmopolitan way, of course, Harvard is strikingly provincial, and we expect there will be a flury of indignant questions: Why should anyone think he can learn more in Europe than at Harvard? Why let people fritter away a year at a lax foreign university? How can a student afford to miss junior tutorial, so necessary to passing general examinations...
...have no intention of shar ing with outsiders their hard-earned prestige or profits. They tower in fields as varied as mining, retailing, proprietary drugs and investment banking, and turn out such well-known products as S. &H. Green Stamps, Caloric ranges, Johnson's Wax, Mennen toiletries, Ex-Lax and Old Fitzgerald-the last of which has a president with the wonderful name of "Pappy" Van Winkle...
...goods businesses, where products are often pirated. Relieved of shareholders' probing questions and pressures to declare dividends, family managers can reinvest all their profits or, for that matter, take a bad loss without having to worry about criticism. Says Roy Goodman, president of Brooklyn's prospering Ex-Lax Co. (500 million chocolate tablets a year): "We have flexibility in the decision-making process. We can get many things done without going through a hierarchy of management...
...Last Word. Too strict a regime, and au pairs like 21-year-old Penelope Fitzgerald, out of Ireland and now in Rome, rebel: "No one wants to be ordered around while Signora does her nails." Too lax a hand, and a goodly proportion end up more literally in the family way than the family had in mind. It was, in fact, the regular, annual arrival of 150 or so au pairs upon the doorstep of Britain's National Council for Unmarried Mothers that recently got the Home Office to issue a free pamphlet offering concisely stated advice in seven...