Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Either by luck or foresight, Connally hooked up with two extremely helpful men after passing his bar exam in 1938. He became Representative Lyndon Johnson's congressional secretary, won a Legion of Merit as a lieutenant aboard the carrier Essex in World War II, managed an Austin radio station, then became attorney for Fort Worth Oil Millionaire Sid Richardson. Tips from Richardson brought Connally a personal fortune of millions through deals in oil properties. The friendship of Johnson, whom Connally served as top strategist in every L.B.J. election campaign since 1937, brought him appointment as Secretary of the Navy...
...recently, military education was a welter of waste, duplication and congressional bewilderment. In 1961, Katzenbach was brought in to organize military learning, coordinate it with civilian education. Katzenbach, whose younger brother Nicholas is U.S. Deputy Attorney General, had the right pedigree for both sides. He earned his Legion of Merit as a Marine officer at Eniwetok, his Ph.D. at Princeton. He taught history at Columbia, directed defense studies at Harvard and academic development at Brandeis...
...Round Table. But aristocratic attributes can be deceptive. Some 400 top students take the stiff examination for career Foreign Office jobs each year (starting salary: $2,220); only 30 to 40 are chosen. Moreover, an Oxbridge education today is usually a badge of merit, not of privilege, and endows its products with an acute sense of history as well as the subtle, precise idiom that makes diplomatic dispatches to the British Foreign Office a model of effective communication...
Extramural attempts to define greatness by ranking the U.S. press in order of merit have been markedly unsuccessful. Since 1952, Publicist Edward L. Bernays has solicited U.S. daily-newspaper publishers three times to nominate the country's ten "best" dailies-a superlative that Bernays does not define. All three ballots have shown such consistency of choice as to support the suspicion that the publishers have been picking papers mostly from habit. Over a span of ten years (1952-62), twelve names sufficed to fill all three lists. And by most journalistic standards, the invariable third choice, the Christian Science...
...Balsar, whose crime was a $4 robbery, felt he was being punished too severely and took his case to the State Supreme Court. The higher court agreed that there was some merit in his plea and ruled that he be resentenced. In a fit of generosity, Judge Stewart Lynch reduced the sentence to 15 years and 10 lashes. Balsar will be flogged...