Word: method
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...legend and those that make for mere performance are dramatically illustrated by the steel and aluminum crises. Kennedy exhibited his honest anger publicly and had the courage to be his own spokesman. Johnson, devious and cowardly, forced his subordinates to speak for him. I prefer Kennedy's method; the public knew exactly where he stood. If Johnson thinks he has been able to fool the public by staying behind the scenes, he is greatly mistaken; he has only earned himself disrespect...
This branch of mathematics is used to analyze problems in which large numbers of variables interact. It provides social scientists, business administrators, and natural scientists with a method for making decisions when numerous factors must be weighed against each other...
Harvard's fourth win in a row vindicated Cooch Edo Marion's freshman coaching technique. While C.C.N.Y. tells its freshmen to charge and attack, Marion stresses careful technique. The C.C.N.Y. method produced winning freshman teams, but the freshmen can't use the same tactics when they graduate to the varsity. Several C.C.N.Y. varsity fencers tried to win with bombast, but they were caught by Harvard stop thrusts...
Died. Erich Apel, 48, East Germany's chief economic planner; by his own hand (method unannounced); in East Berlin. Since his predecessor also committed suicide, the East Germans called Apel's death "a sudden uncontrolled reaction" brought on by "overburdened nerves." They were especially embarrassed since it took place three days after he had concluded a new five-year trade pact with the Russians...
Died. Bernard Bloch, 58, professor of linguistics at Yale University, who in World War II devised an invaluable short-cut method of teaching spoken Japanese based on phonetics and idioms that opened up the immensely complicated language to thousands of Allied interpreters, is now in standard use throughout the U.S.; of congestive heart failure; in New Haven, Conn...