Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear him take out after "scummy anarchists" and pseudo intellectuals. In Springfield, Mo., he drew the biggest political crowd ever to assemble in the city square-more than 10,000 people. In Milwaukee, 5,000 filed into the municipal auditorium, along with 600 hecklers, to listen to Wallace's perfervid oratory. Nearly everywhere, he put forth a strident defense of the nation's police. "If they could run this country for about two years," he cried, "they'd straighten...
...Greatness. Despite his rapport with students, Young is far from being a pliant tool of protesters. During one heated, profanity-filled meeting with some student rebels, he suddenly snapped: "I don't have to listen to that kind of language" and walked out. Quick in temper, Young is also quick to clamp down on undergraduate activities that go too far. After a fraternity held a party that barred Negroes and Mexican Americans, Young suspended it from the campus. In the face of a massive student revolt, he says, "I wouldn't hesitate a moment to call...
...Moriarty says sifts out "emotional instability, stress and strain, sadistic inclinations, those not really interested in a police career, borderline cases and homos." In Cincinnati, groups of ten police applicants at a time take part in two-hour bull sessions on such topics as homosexuality and minority groups. Psychologists listen in, and observe their every move...
...many of whom have other serious disorders. His patients, however, have no such compunctions. Like 74-year-old Dudley Pell, who was on the verge of quitting his real estate business before undergoing the Bass program, they talk of the benefits of the bicycle to all who care to listen...
...executives. Under Chairman Harold Geneen, himself hired away from Raytheon, ITT has taken on some 500 men from other firms in the past eight years. Besides creating voracious appetites for instant manpower, corporate bigness tends to dilute employee loyalty, with the result that executives are more willing to listen to new job offers. What makes them even more susceptible is the fact that so much of the growth has been occurring through mergers. Says F. L. Mannix, an executive recruiter in Wellesley, Mass.: "Suddenly there are two people for one job. A man sees the handwriting on the wall...