Word: steers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repressive tenor of the regime ran counter to the wishes of King Constantine, in whose name the officers had seized power (see box). After initially opposing the coup, the King decided to cooperate in an effort to steer the regime toward parliamentary rule, but his hopes hardly seemed justified. Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos, 54, the new Interior Minister and a member of the triumvirate that really rules the country, mused to foreign newsmen that in the new Greece there would be a strong executive branch and perhaps no need for a Parliament at all. "We believe Parliament will...
...their side. Actually, many Greeks, including the King, feel that the junta as it now exists is not likely to endure, and that one strong man will eventually emerge as dictator. It is with that man that the King must ultimately deal if he ever hopes to steer the country back to normality-and the dealing may be tough indeed...
Hoping to steer ailing American Motors Corp. back to health, Board Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. recently prescribed price cuts for his slow-moving Rambler American economy line. The first sales figures showed an encouraging upturn-and Chapin, dining in a Chicago restaurant, cheerily ordered strolling musicians to play Just in Time. The American's $1,839 base price - well under that of any other U.S. compact and only $200 more than the Volkswagen-has indeed helped tune up sales, which in April rose 8% over the same month last year, to 7,371 cars. Nevertheless, as of last...
...move toward liberalization by appointing Jenö Fock, 51, a noted economist, to serve as the country's new Premier. Fock, who replaces Gyula Kállai, 57, is the author of Hungary's "New Economic Mechanism," which goes into effect next year. He is expected to steer a middle course between the conservatives, who want to keep the economy in the firm grip of the party planners, and those who advocate a major role for private initiative both in the factories and on the ailing kholkozes (collective farms...
Fulbright watered down the resolution so drastically during committee hearings that Johnson passed the word to let it die without coming to a Senate vote. Johnson still hopes to steer the generally responsive Latinos toward making the historic decision for the common mar ket, but the outcome will now depend more on his power of personal persuasion and less on the power of the dollar...