Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York convention last week (see THE NATION), the National Association of Manufacturers chose as its new president an embodiment of the great American success story-reserved, stern-featured Donald J. Hardenbrook, 65. A non-college man, Hardenbrook started out as a $6-a-week office boy with Atlas Portland Cement, inexorably worked his way up to board chairman of American Creosoting Corp. Though he is descended from Manhattan's original Dutch settlers and claims a great-great-great-great-grandfather who helped found the New York Stock Exchange in 1792, strapping Donald Hardenbrook owes his business eminence...
...Formula. At the center of it all-the 577 delegates and 200 staffers, 65 observers and 275 reporters, plus assorted wives and special guests-a stern, craggy Dutchman loomed over the Assembly like an orchestra conductor on a podium. Willem Visser 't Hooft is the prime professional of the international ecumenical movement, in which he has spent his entire working life, and the New Delhi Assembly is the crowning of his career, for he plans to retire some time before the next one-probably in Africa six years hence...
Visser 't Hooft's stern Dutch face reflects warmth and good fellowship over a drink or at the staff's daily 15-minute tea party, but the ship he runs at Geneva is taut. He is capable of festive foolery: at an office party each St. Nicholaas Eve (Dec. 5), he sings a song consisting of good-natured personal gibes at the staff. He travels plenty. "If I hold any kind of a record," he says, "it is for attending international conferences. I wonder...
...really knew just why the U.S. consumer has suddenly relaxed the stern budget watching that has been so severe a drag on the nation's economic recovery (TIME, July 21 et seq.). Scorning such psychological explanations as Christmas spirit or a diminishing fear of war, the economists could only note that more jobs, longer work weeks, and increased dividends for the nation's 15 million stockholders had lifted personal income by $4 billion in October to a record annual rate of $425 billion. Furthermore, though the cost of living has risen less than 1%, the average weekly take...
Once again the State Department has begun to consider methods of tying its passport regulations about the necks of subversives. Suddenly very stern, it now threatens rigid enforcement of provisions in the Internal Security Act of 1950 that forbid members of proscribed organizations to apply for permission to leave the country. Possibly the Department will observe the letter of the Act even more closely, and direct a suspicious glare upon itself, for it is also an offense for government employees "knowing or having reason to believe" that applicants are Communists to issue passports to them...