Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polished Eastern intellectual-have hit it off so well that McNamara now characteristically begins an opinion with the phrase, "Ros and I." Ros Gilpatric made Phi Beta Kappa at Yale (1928), got his law degree there (1931 ) and in time became a leading corporation lawyer, as a partner of Wall Street's Cravath, Swaine & Moore. During World War II, he ironed out production-contract problems. In 1951 he plunged into the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, soon was promoted to Under Secretary, and began warning about Russian jet progress and the need for service unity. After...
President Kennedy's choice for the new U.S. spokesman at Geneva was Arthur Hobson Dean, 62, once John Foster Dulles' law partner. A cherubic-looking fellow. Dean earned his negotiator's credentials the hard way, representing the U.S. in the interminable Korean war truce talks with the Chinese Communists. In his briefcase, Dean carried a whole sheaf of new Western proposals, jointly tailored by the Kennedy Administration and the British government to eliminate the most serious Soviet objections to previous Western plans. "Our proposals," said British Negotiator David Ormsby-Gore, "should now make agreement possible before...
...subscription service brings him and a partner about $350,000 a year, and Drew spends more than $150,000 in a good year for advertising to lure new subscribers. He once got separate letters from two partners in the same Wall Street firm requesting his service. Each asked that Drew's report be sent to his home rather than to the office. Neither wanted his partner to know that he was succumbing to Drew...
...crutches that he played for his grammar school soccer team. He quit school at 16, two years later was able to buy his first wooden leg. For the next 13 years he bummed around from job to job, finally winding up at the end of Prohibition as a partner in a neighborhood bar. A year later, the partnership was dissolved...
...Ceylon and the U.A.R.). Stevenson insisted that the U.S. would not support a strident, hysterical measure. As a result, the drafters took a sober second look at their own resolution and agreed to tone it down. During the debate, Adlai Stevenson cited the Declaration of Independence and chided NATO Partner Portugal for ignoring the obvious signals that could push Angola into the same hideous chaos Belgium had bestowed upon its Congo colony. When it was time to vote, Stevenson lifted his fateful finger on the Afro-Asian side...