Word: outspoken
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...army (Costa Rica has not had one since), instituted many social reforms and, after 18 months, restored power to the elected President. Figueres was elected to the presidency in his own right in 1953 and again last year. Educated at M.l.T. and married to an American, he became an outspoken supporter of the U.S. Opponents frequently charged, in fact, that he was too pro-Yankee...
Noting that Wiesner has been outspoken in his opposition to the Indochina war and the anti-ballistic missile program, Chayes predicted that Wiesner will attempt to "devote more time to the integration of scientific work with the problems of the community...
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...conference, Wiesner, who has been extraordinarily outspoken in his views on issues such as the Indochina war and disarmament. said that the job of the presidency will probably force him to quiet down a little. "I'll have to take into account the views of the whole university community ... I feel I shouldn't speak out on partisan politics as I have been," he said...
...Kyes, 64, General Motors executive who served the Pentagon as Deputy Secretary of Defense under Eisenhower in 1953; of a heart attack; in Columbus, Ohio. When G.M. President Charles E. Wilson became Secretary of Defense, he took along his vice president, Kyes, as No. 2 man. Tough-minded, outspoken, sardonically known as "Jolly Roger" because of his piratical ruthlessness, Kyes characterized the nation's military establishment as an organization plagued by "unrealistic requirements, poor planning and inefficient execution . . . waste of money, poor utilization of manpower, unnecessary drain of materials from the civilian economy, and the inefficient use of tools...