Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked to speak to a joint meeting of Congress until after he arrived in the U.S. But, in soldierly fashion, he drafted a reserve speech for any eventuality. President Johnson was in Germany when the general gave his talk at the A.P. luncheon, but everybody assumed he had read it in advance. He had not. But, especially in view of the uproar, he did have a look at the congressional speech. With his aides, Johnson watched it on television at the White House...
When Wilt Chamberlain was with the San Francisco Warriors, local sportswriters tended to regard him as an oversized goon who could dunk the ball but rated zero on team play. WILT SCORES 50, WARRIORS LOSE, the headlines often read. The crowds were down on him, too. "I can't love a 7-ft. 1-in. loser," said a fan at the time. So two years ago, San Francisco gladly traded Wilt to the Philadelphia 76ers. Last year the Warriors fired Wilt's coach, Alex Hannum, after a front-office squabble, and he also wound up in Philadelphia. Good...
...decision that is likely to be widely followed, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just ruled that the answer is no. Suspected of stealing from his employer, Bethlehem Construction Worker Joseph Dravecz had stood mute when police read his accuser's statement to him. Dravecz was convicted largely on the basis of his silence. By a vote of 6 to 1, though, the high court reversed the conviction and voided the tacit-admission rule in Pennsylvania...
Like the late Maxwell E. Perkins, his editing idol, Thomas is famous for close rapport with his authors: "Some you get to know so well that you are aware of what they are going to say before you read their manuscripts." In the Manchester dispute, Thomas learned that rapport can sometimes turn sour. In 1955, Thomas helped persuade a bedridden Senator John Kennedy to turn a couple of his historical essays into a book, Profiles in Courage. He later edited Bobby Kennedy's account of his experiences with the McClellan crime committee investigations, The Enemy Within. But after...
...ranks, he moved to the company's San Francisco headquarters in 1943 as assistant to the manufacturing vice president. As a member of C.Z.'s planning committee, he helped devise ways to capitalize on postwar opportunities. To make up for his lack of formal education, Hunt read avidly on his own, reached the conclusion that a college education was useful only in "teaching you where to look for more knowledge." He became C.Z.'s president in 1959, its chairman four years later...