Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief. Nixon will be Hoover's eighth President (Calvin Coolidge was the first) and almost certainly his last. "The Director" is already four years past the normal mandatory retirement age (he will be 74 on New Year's Day), and it is understood that he will step down at age 75 with 45 years of service as the bureau's chief. Why the extension? Explained a Nixon aide: "You don't begin a law and order campaign by firing J. Edgar Hoover...
...tempered, as the letters show, by a fine sensuous eye. "Imagine slender, tall Chinese women like snakes erected upright," he reported during his first visit to Singapore. "Never did the human body look so like a sword. And through the dresses slit open at the sides, at each step, the yellow blade of the leg glistens-slender, strong, irresistible-right up to the pelvis...
...interview in many months to a foreign newsman. Over cups of thick Turkish coffee in his wood-paneled office in Athens, Papadopoulos told TIME'S Wilton Wynn of his desire to reestablish parliamentary government in Greece, reaffirmed his allegiance to King Constantine and declared his own willingness to step down from power. Self-confident and relaxed, the Premier avoided any reference to the seamier side of his army-backed regime, which still holds 1,800 Greeks in prison camps in the Aegean islands. He even denied the existence of the revolutionary council, which until recently was a stronghold...
...writing long letters to the editor under the pen name A. Aitchess. By 1961, the Times's daily circulation had risen 48%, to 680,265, and its Sunday circulation had nearly doubled, to 1,306,418. Sulzberger was nearing 70, and he felt that it was time to step down. "The Times must never grow old," he said. "Youth is best served by youth...
...Norris seemed content to let Watson's IBM hold the overwhelming lead: "I want Control Data to be the Ford of the com puter industry." Though few people expect that IBM will be broken up, Control Data's suit may force the giant to back up a step or two. At the very least, it may prevent premature announcements of computers that are not quite ready to live up to expectations...