Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erhard's instincts were molded in the easy atmosphere of Southern Germany's pre-World War I petite bourgeoisie. He was born (1897) in Fiirth, the quiet Franconian town that today is virtually a suburb of spreading Niirnberg. Son of a retail cloth merchant, he assumed from early age that he would follow his father in the family business: "I had no doubt about the adequacy of the firm social order about me." That social order collapsed with World War I. Serving in the artillery, Corporal Erhard was severely wounded during the murderous battle of Ypres. After seven...
...allies were about to revalue the German mark and bring about the drastic shake-out that was to set the stage for West Germany's later economic success. To Occupation officers, currency reform was enough for one step, but Erhard had a further move in mind. On a quiet Sunday afternoon when, as he says, "I knew no bureaucrats would be around to stop me," he went to the local radio station and took the air with a dramatic announcement: the end of rationing. "From now on," he declared, "the only ration stamp will be the Deutsche mark...
Kind & Gentle. To his neighbors in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., the quiet suburban town where he lived for some 30 years and raised his two children, Genovese seemed a "kind and gentle man." But according to Joe Valachi, the underworld canary who sang for the Senate's McClellan committee, Neapolitan-born Racketeer Genovese, 65, is the "boss of all bosses." He arrived, Valachi explained, by a straightforward tactic: he had his rivals murdered...
...After that, says a Princeton honors student, one need only "sit in the first two rows of the lecture room and maintain continuous eye contact with the lecturer. Make him glad he's looking at you. Give him that receptive gaze, which implies amazement at his genius and quiet excitement at the information being transmitted...
...years since he left Sperry Rand's Univac division to start on his own, Norris has made Control Data into a company with yearly sales of more than $63 million; last week he announced the purchase of the California-based control-systems division of Daystrom Inc. A quiet man, shy to the point of brusqueness, Norris is an engineer with a flair for recruiting, training and keeping good people who are given modest salaries but generous stock options. Norris delegates authority "as low as possible in the organization," adheres to strict office routine that allows him time for "lots...