Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McHenry's rise to his present post has been low-keyed and skillful. Born in St. Louis, he graduated from Illinois State University and earned a master's degree in international relations at Southern Illinois University. In 1963 he joined the State Department as a junior officer in the Office of United Nations Political Affairs and rose quickly through the ranks. A liberal concerned with the humanitarian side of foreign policy, he left the department when Henry Kissinger became Secretary, and joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
Once at Jari, Ludwig ignores the successful projects to concentrate on problem areas. Like a conceptual architect who carries the blueprints in his mind, he supervises new undertakings down to the most minute detail. Yet he is becoming less dictatorial. The present project chief, John Trescot Jr., 54, an ace cost cutter who has been on the job for six months, claims that he can actually argue with him over decisions. Ludwig is beginning to accept a substantial dilution of his authority. He has created an eight-man committee that exercises an overall policymaking role. Also, Ludwig has willed Jari...
There is method in Ludwig's mellowness. The Jari project is approaching the crucial second stage of development. The present pulp mill is planned eventually to turn out 750 metric tons daily, making it moderately large by world standards. If the project is to be fully successful, Ludwig needs to install another plant, which might process pulp into newsprint. Luckily, large deposits of kaolin, a white mineral used in papermaking, have been found on the Jari property...
...local is seeking modified union shop status under which present clerical workers could choose whether to join, and new workers would have to join District 65. The administration rejected this proposal...
Attempting to preserve unity in this welter of people and subplots, Clark resorts to some by now familiar techniques. She cuts rapidly back and forth between characters and blends past, present and future: "Right now she was still in the same ugly, dun-colored frame house on a side street in Michigan, feeling poorly as usual, without a thought of setting out for anywhere, and a certain southbound pair of hikers were still at the Canadian end of the Long Trail, a long way from the Boonton crossing where a very different couple would shortly be murdered. Not that...