Word: savvyness
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Mergers are becoming so common among U.S. railroads that planning and executing them have become necessary talents for rail executives. Looking around for a new boss to fill the post that has been vacant since the death of Chairman J. D. Farrington three years ago, the directors of the Chicago...
What follows are views of life among such ethnic fringe groups as Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews, a band of Rumanian gypsies at Coney Island, a voodoo cult in Harlem, Japanese Buddhists on Riverside Drive, New Year revelers in Chinatown. Paradoxically, while poking through the city's sociological byways...
Died. Sakari Tuomioja, 53, Finnish ranker and U.N. diplomat who proved himself a savvy, soft-spoken trouble-hooter in Laos in 1959, was picked by U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last March to try mediating the Cyprus dispute; following a stroke on Aug. 16, just before he was ready to...
Her 27 years with Lyndon as Congressman, Senator, Senate majority leader, Vice President and President have been rugged, sometimes lonesome, always at a hell-bent pace. Lady Bird suffered through four miscarriages and faithfully nursed Lyndon back to sleek and robust health after a near-fatal heart attack in 1955...
Brooklyn-born Cohen is a Russian immigrant's son who worked his way to a degree at Brooklyn Law School ('36) and joined the commission in 1942. Rising to head its division of corporate finance, he became known as a savvy administrator whose devotion to the job did...