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Leadership v. Authority. Through those five years, DuBridge ruled with an easy mixture of tact and firmness. He not only kept his freewheeling scientists happy, he also managed the military. Says H. Rowan Gaither Jr., now president of the Ford Foundation, "He exerted not authority, but leadership." Adds Physicist Rabi: "He believed in his people and what they could do. He made the people there become great men because he believed them great." Most important, he would back up his scientists against the most stubborn military conservatism. When Physicist Luis Alvarez invented G.C.A., he had little to support...
...considered Broadway's most sacred relic: at any rate its five-year run remains the greatest of Broadway miracles. How great a miracle only those who see it today can be quite sure. It has been brought up to date in various little ways, but with the utmost tact, and in all essentials is every bit as stupefying...
...stationary." The magistrate's decision knocked EDC out of the headlines and rattled teacups all over London. The outraged London Transport Executive ordered conductors to defy the court and to go right on discouraging between-stop boarding in the interest of safety, but to do so with delicacy, tact and common sense. The bus drivers' union demanded a "fight to get this bus jumping made a punishable offense," which would take an Act of Parliament...
London's Economist, called the right to bus jump "one of the symbols that distinguishes Britain from Prussia." But letter writers complained to their favorite papers that bus jumping "by athletic, predatory men" was un-English. Bus drivers themselves met the crisis with the required tact. At Trafalgar Square traffic lights, when one Londoner leaped aboard, the conductor grinned and addressed the passengers, "Shall I chuck him off or give him a medal?" As lights halted another bus at Lower Regent Street, the conductor bellowed cheerfully, "Stand by to repel boarders...
...mystery man. He sits in small room with peeling wallpaper at table covered with green baize cloth an gives orders to a small, devoted group of deputies. Matchmen freely admit that they use "American methods" to get stories in a country where most journalist operate with a maximum of tact and minimum of imagination. In Rome, at a elevation of new cardinals, a Match photographer disguised himself as a papal servant, ushered visitors to their seat while he quietly snapped pictures of the ceremony with a camera hidden under his robes...