Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former United Press International reporter, is the chief tactician at the grass-roots level and the most important of the Mc-Carthyites in Wisconsin today. Seymour Hersh, 30, still another former newsman (he covered the Pentagon for the Associated Press), is press secretary, speechwriter-and an unexcelled master of profanity. A score of others do everything from dispersing funds to researching issues, but none of them can yet be considered part of the inner circle...
...said he would try to get buses closer to the curb at pickup. Whether talking of hippies on the Haight ("This is not going to be any police state") or to Department Store Magnate Cyril Magnin (whom Alioto made city protocol chief), the balding, somber-suited mayor is the master of civic ceremony. Last week he redeemed a painful campaign promise to reduce city property taxes 20% by proposing a commuter tax-the first on the West Coast* which, if enacted, will net $14 million a year from San Francisco's 122,000 outside workers. They earn...
Evergreen has also joined the ranks of bidders for hot political memoirs. Its first catch was Kim Philby, the British master spy, for whose reminiscences it paid more than $50,000; the first installment appears in the April issue. With only marginal advertising, Evergreen does not quite break even by charging $1 an issue. But by developing young writers in the magazine, Rosset stands to recover his investment when they become popular and he publishes their books...
During his World War II tour of duty in France, he reminisces, he looked up Pablo Picasso in Paris. Picasso offered to let him pick out a picture, so Mayer did. It turned out to be by one of Picasso's students (the master let him choose a second). Today, Mayer lets dealers do most of the picking. But his infectious enthusiasm has made modern-art converts out of several of his neighbors. Even the Mayers' butler now assembles collages from bow ties and false teeth, which Mayer hangs along with his Oldenburgs and Tingue...
...turn, Peterson pressed Bell & Howell to become "more innovative, more proprietary, more systems-oriented." Among Bell & Howell's successes under Peterson are a classroom projector that uses convenient filmstrip cassettes; a "Language Master" teaching device that allows children to see and hear a word, then record their own pronunciation for comparison; and an inexpensive ($12,600) color TV camera...