Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Casually, and with characteristic relish, he announced a series of major appointments guaranteed to make headlines. General William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, was becoming the Army's new Chief of Staff. Did that signal a shift in the Administration's conduct of the war? Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver, brother-in-law of Bobby Kennedy, was off to Paris as the new U.S. Ambassador to France. Did that signify a move to weaken the Kennedy forces, a new American approach to the intractable Charles de Gaulle, a fresh approach to the war on poverty...
...very big handicap now. McCarthy's biggest problem for the long run is building a professional staff-and keeping it from Kennedy. Goodwin, a close friend of Bobby's, admits that he is "torn" between the two candidates, and no one would be surprised to see him shift camps after the Wisconsin primary. "I notice," quipped McCarthy last week, "that Dick Goodwin has a very large suitcase. He might have a change of clothes for another climate, but I'm not sure...
...Locals shift to Kennedy because of past allegiances, or because they believe Kennedy will be a more powerful force in this state for a longer time than Johnson. Locals who switch claim they are against the war, and indeed they may be. But when asked if they had previously thought of switching to McCarthy, they shrug and confess it was out of the question...
Looking forward, onetime New Deal Brain-Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell gives a progress report on his 32nd effort to bring the U.S. Constitution up to date. Dubbed the "Refounding Father" by his colleagues, Tugwell spells out a citizen's responsibilities along with his rights, emphasizes the shift in society from "competition to mutuality...
...this represents a dramatic shift in City's sights. Run since 1943 by Robert W. Dowling, son of the founder and the company's biggest (8%) shareholder, City had traditionally handled its properties as much with a sense of proprietary pride as for profit. Himself one of the nation's most highly regarded real estate planners, Dowling won fame for his design of Philadelphia's pioneering downtown Penn Center project. He also put City deep into such investments as Sterling Forest, a 30-sq.-mi. sylvan tract 40 miles from Manhattan being developed for corporate research...