Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey's grippe was genuine, but so was the quandary that the mayor was hinting at. Like Richard Nixon, Humphrey is almost certain to win his party's nomination next month; yet rank-and-file reaction to his candidacy, never notably enthusiastic, has been increasingly indifferent of late, if not outright hostile. For weeks, despite his self-imposed obligation to defend the Johnson Administration and its policies, the Vice President has sought assiduously to outline the prospect of an independent, innovative Humphrey regime. To date, however, the exuberant Minnesotan has had to take consolation from delegate arithmetic rather...
Outmoded administrative systems that force every recruit to start off in the lowest rank discourage the educated and the enterprising from becoming policemen. Every would-be police chief has to serve a menial apprenticeship; no one from outside, regardless of his qualifications, can come in at the middle. Some, like Reddin, favor lateral entry, commonplace in every other organization, but none have succeeded in changing the ossified structure of the police establishment. Pay is equally out of date; the median for patrolmen in big cities...
...internal security system. The hard-liners are ardently antiCommunist, antiRoyalist and in favor of a state of "continued revolution" to purge Greece of its "imperfections." In the first months after the coup, Papadopoulos placed a number of the hard-liners in various important ministries. Though they held a second-rank title of secretary-general, they actually told the ministers what to do. But as Papadopoulos consolidated his own power and turned in his own uniform for civilian clothes, he relied less and less on the hardliners. Moreover, in an effort to make his regime more acceptable to Greece...
Even with Container Corp. in its fold (and combined revenues of $2.36 billion for last year), Montgomery Ward would still rank third in its field, well behind Sears, Roebuck and a bit below J.C. Penney. In his seven-year struggle to revitalize Wards, Tom Brooker has unabashedly borrowed many tactics from Sears, where he rose to a vice presidency for manufacturing before leaving in 1958 to head appliance-making Whirlpool Corp. He closed marginal outlets, invested much of Wards' pile of idle cash in big new suburban stores, revamped sagging catalog sales, upgraded merchandise lines, established long-term contracts...
...test the relationship between status and stature, Wilson introduced a stranger from Britain by a different academic rank to five groups of Sydney students. Later, after the visitor had left, he asked each group to estimate the man's height. As plain "Mr. England, a student from Cambridge," the stranger's height averaged out to be 5 ft. 9.8 in. As "Mr. England, demonstrator in psychology from Cambridge," he grew to 5 ft. 10.39 in. Up in rank to "Mr. England, lecturer in psychology from Cambridge," he reached 5 ft. 10.86 in. As the imposing "Dr. England, senior...