Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. A replay of the 1942 Battle of Midway by a specialist in the literary art of summoning up remembrance of things past...
Even so, Britons quickly took sides on Lord Coal's role. In an editorial headlined "A Damning Indictment," the London Financial Times argued for what it called "the honorable tradition that whenever a disaster occurs the man in command should go." Not so, snapped Sir Miles Thomas, who had been head of BOAC when the early Comet jet airliners were crashing. "I wouldn't resign," said he. "I'd see it through and make sure everything possible was done to see that it never happened again." A letter from former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who tapped Robens...
...other positions in business can match the chairmanship of Britain's huge National Coal Board, held for six years by blunt, ebullient Baron Robens of Woldingham, 56. "Lord Coal" or "Honest Alf," as he is known to Britons, runs a mammoth operation that has a work force (420,000) twice the size of the British army, ranks No. 3 on FORTUNE'S list of the 200 biggest non-U.S. companies. Because the company has been nationalized since 1947, the N.C.B. chairman is also a political appointee serving at the pleasure of the government. So last week, when...
...weakened tip suddenly slid down its precarious mountainside site. In 151 emotion-charged pages, the report told a "terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude," scourged the National Coal Board for neglecting "the stability of tips," cited seven N.C.B. staffers (all of whom have been shifted to new jobs) as "blameworthy." Lord Robens himself got off with only a sharp rebuke for having insisted that the company "could not have known" of trouble...
Reconstructed from the recollections of admirals and mess cooks, aviators and boatswain's mates-both Japanese and American-Lord's account of the two-day battle is supercharged with acts of individual courage. Marine "Gunny" Deacon Arnold concocts anti-invasion mines with blasting gelatin stuffed into lengths of sewer pipe. Movie Director John Ford, wounded during the first Japanese strike, keeps on shooting with his camera. Lieut. Rokuro Kikuchi, his "Betty" bathed in flame, waves goodbye to his fellow airmen...