Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harris' behavior was erratic. He threw public tantrums and offended potential patrons in their own houses. One friend called him "a Svengali," but Miss Buck was firm: Harris acted as he did because he was "very brilliant, very high-strung and artistic...
...advocated "a battle to shatter the myth of Israeli military supremacy . . . one in which the Arab forces might destroy two or three Israeli divisions, kill between 10,000 and 20,000 men, and force the Israeli army to pull back even a few kilometers." When a barrage of public and private entreaties followed, Nasser reportedly passed the word to his friend to ease off, and "the battle" has not been mentioned seriously since...
...recent speech, Ley warned the drugmakers: "I feel very strongly that you are in grave danger of losing public confidence. Unless there is a major change in the drug industry's emphasis on sales over safety, the industry as we know it today may well be buried in the next several years in a grave that it has helped to dig, inch by inch, overpromotion by overpromotion, bad drug by bad drug...
Massachusetts' Public Utilities Commission is equally indignant. Last week it put off an 11% rate increase, which New England Telephone & Telegraph had requested only days after the commission ordered it to clear up a long list of "unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper and inadequate" practices. In a hearing that piled up 607 pages of testimony, the commission heard stories of billing errors, "false" busy signals (which occur when circuits are overloaded), baffling difficulties in making long-distance calls and unreasonable installation delays...
...acting as a private club run for the profit of a privileged few, moved last week to revise its membership. The exchange's Board of Governors caught many Wall Streeters by surprise by voting to allow its members to sell stock in their own firms to the public. At the same time, the board said that by year's end it would consider permitting mutual funds and other financial institutions either to join the exchange as associates or find some way to grant them discounts on the commissions that they pay on transactions...