Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present eclipse. In 1961 John Kennedy set for the U.S. the goal of landing men on the moon by 1970; Richard Nixon, the man Kennedy defeated, presided over the attainment of that goal in 1969. By mischance, Senator Edward Kennedy, the heir to an important part of U.S. liberal leadership, found his political future seriously in doubt...
...Riots, crime and permissiveness are all linked in their minds, in a sense, with the old, New Deal-style leadership. Those Americans who have struggled to get just a bit of the good life are turning away to seek a calmer mooring. Right now they have fastened upon Richard Nixon, who goes to ball games, supports the lean hot dog and follows space flights with the enthusiasm of a small boy. He is the president of the Jaycees, the Kiwanis booster, the cheerleader flying around the world glorying in what middle America has wrought. The Apollo success makes...
...applied to causes even more arduous-and at least as worthy-as reaching the moon. But it can happen only with the help of two forces that are extremely hard to bring into play, and there is no evidence as yet that they are being marshaled. They are national leadership and national will...
...private star-chamber proceedings with punishments announced after the normal school year was over and students had gone home. But these students will return in the fall, and in their eyes the Corporation and the Administration will have been increasingly isolated and exposed by their attempts to punish the leadership of the struggle against ROTC and expansion...
...McKee appointed him joint managing director, CTIP's Gian Vittono Cavanna started secret negotiations with Technip, a French government-owned engineering firm. Without telling McKee, Cavanna signed a general agreement calling for a reshuffling of CTIP ownership among Technip, McKee and Italian companies. The idea was that divided leadership would enable CTIP employees to run their company themselves, rather than let tight control remain with the parent organization in the U.S. Despite the threat of a costly walkout, CTIP's McKee-controlled executive committee fired Cavanna and two of his collaborators. This month CTIP's 850 Rome...