Word: taciturn
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...last week did white-haired, Stetson-hatted E. B. (for Eugene Benjamin) Germany, 69, announce his retirement after 15 years as president of one of Texas' most remarkable and controversial corporations. Continuing as chairman, Germany will be replaced as Lone Star's chief executive officer by tough, taciturn George A. Wilson, 52, who headed Dallas' TXL Oil Corp. until it was sold two months ago to Texaco for $200 million...
...discovery that the cruel, handsome, scarred face of James Bond does not turn up until more than halfway through Ian Fleming's latest book. They will look in vain for the familiar early scene in the eighth-floor office on Regent's Park where the taciturn M re-lights his pipe and hands Bond his latest assignation with Death and the Maiden...
Ever since former Ambassador Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov left Washington in early January, the taciturn Soviet diplomatic delegation has been even quieter than usual under the interim command of Minister Counselor Mikhail Smirnovsky. While it waited for Dobrynin's arrival, official Washington had had time to ponder his credentials. A skilled diplomat and a top Soviet expert on the U.S., Dobrynin served at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1952 to 1955. Later, at the U.N., he was Dag Hammarskjold's Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs. He attended the Geneva summit conference...
...control center for the vast building project is at Inglewood, Calif., deputy headquarters for the Air Force Systems Command. Boss of the coast-to-coast construction crew is Lieut. General Howell M. Estes Jr., 46, a tough, taciturn veteran of the Strategic Air Command. Estes and his ballistic systems division commander, Major General Thomas P. Gerrity, 47, another SAC veteran, start work at 6:30 a.m., finish at 7 p.m., log 65 hours a week on the job, and expect their staff to do the same. Since the program began in 1956, Estes and his men have discovered that keeping...
...doll for Caroline and two silver rattles for John Jr. In return, Kennedy had Ayub measured for a tailor-made, gold-inlaid shotgun (a 12-gauge Winchester 21), which will be sent directly to Pakistan as soon as it is completed. At noon Ayub addressed Congress (see above), moved taciturn House Speaker Sam Rayburn to remark: "We have been in the presence of a man with iron in his backbone and brains in his head...