Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Private Faces. Sensitive and deceptively youthful in appearance, 51-year-old Dag Hammarskjold is a scion of one of Sweden's most notable political families. His father was the Prime Minister who kept Sweden out of World War I. Hammarskjold was from childhood a quiet, reserved person whose pastimes were solitary (mountaineering, cycling) and whose interests were intellectual (modern poetry and modern art). Despite what colleagues called his "devastating impersonality," his brilliant record as an economist and his outstanding administrative skill made him at 31 Under Secretary of Finance, and, at 36, chairman of the Bank of Sweden...
...brilliance, discretion and impartiality. Hammarskjold does not pretend to be impartial at heart ("You love some things and you loathe others"), but he does his best to bring to his job the objectivity of a good historian. "The public," says he, "never sees that, with the kind of person you have to deal with on a high level, you can take it for granted that in his eyes he has a good case. There must be some elements in his case you can recognize as right...
...would like to announce to Mr. Abramson that when the City Council holds its public hearing on my proposal to have alternate-side parking he will receive a personal invitation from me to attend that hearing," Vellucci said. He added menacingly, "I dare Mr. Teele or any other person at Harvard to stop him from talking or speaking his mind...
...department's top planners, represented State at the National Security Council, and briefed congressional leaders on a turbulent world. Twice a day he made rapid visits to Walter Reed for on-the-spot discussions with John Foster Dulles; two or three times a day he reported in person at the White House...
...same period, real wages went up 50% in the East, 100% in the Bonn Republic. Last week West Germany released a telling statistic. In the impoverished East, autos are still restricted to a sprinkling of doctors, technicians, specially privileged artists and the Communist elite; in West Germany one person in 25 now owns an auto...