Word: life
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...wartime reporting in Europe and the Pacific and, in 1948, became the youngest Washington bureau chief ever. Nine years later, he was named chief of the U.S. and Canadian news service. Moving over to the business side in late 1960, he spent three years as assistant publisher of LIFE and another three as publisher of FORTUNE before returning to TIME as publisher. During his stewardship, TIME'S circulation has grown 20% to its present 5,300,000, and advertising revenues have climbed 25% and will reach $125 million...
After almost three years of writing, Hank Luce moved on to a wide variety of jobs. He played a major role in planning and supervising the construction of the new Time & Life Building, served as circulation director of FORTUNE, director of corporate research and development, London bureau chief for TIME and, since April 1968, publisher of FORTUNE. With it all, says Luce, "I've spent more years at TIME than in any other part of the company. It is, of course, the origin of the company, the first magazine, the great flagship of the group. It is very exciting...
...registered with either political party now, Haynsworth listed himself as a Democrat until 1957. He supported Dwight Eisenhower in 1956. Haynsworth has never run for office himself, prefers to work for "the man I feel is best qualified for the job." His legal prose reflects the cadences of his life: measured, sedate and pellucid. His friends say that his facility with the written word is in part purposeful compensation for his tendency to stutter...
...response" in Robert McNamara's day or even the "bigger bang for a buck" of Charles E. Wilson's time. Like Nixon himself, Laird seems unencumbered by?some would say unequipped with?any particularly abiding philosophy. He is the only Secretary of Defense to come from Congress. Half his life ? he will be 47 next week ? was spent as a state or federal legislator,* and he had no other career until last January. "I'm a politician," he has frequently said, "and proud of it. That's all I've ever been." While reviewing an honor guard...
...regain his equilibrium soon. Now, among both friends and political intimates, who initially felt that his withdrawal from presidential contention and his expressed intention to remain in the Senate would suspend the harassments plaguing him, there is a growing fear that he is being driven from public life...