Word: taker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old president of the Japanese National Railways-the world's biggest passenger-carrying railroad-retired last month, Premier Ikeda found that just about no one wanted the job of runing the debt-ridden road, which carried 5.4 billion passengers in 1962. He finally found a taker who was old enough (72) to retire and who had never run a railroad. The new president is Reisuke Ishida, an economic adviser to Japanese military governors in Hong Kong and China during World War II, who was purged by the Allies in 1946 and has since stayed in the background...
Susskind is no shy credit-taker himself. He speaks of the three movies produced with his money--Edge of the City, Raisin in the Sun, and Requiem for a Heavyweight-- as "my pictures." And he regards the art of television as something akin to artistic portraiture. "That Brando interview," he said of an Open End show which will soon run in Boston, "was a really masterful portrait of a human being...
...last week said a noted pulse taker of U.S. campus life, President Edward D. Eddy Jr. of Pittsburgh's Chatham College, before a meeting of U.S. state-university presidents in Washington, D.C. How to preserve small-unit living on big campuses is the problem, says Critic Eddy. The "three, four-and sometimes ten-story hotel which often serves as a dormitory" is no solution. But neither is preservation of fraternities: "Time has run out for the national fraternity system. It has failed to adapt itself to the demands of the new student and to a changing social pattern...
...wondrously confusing that a couple of upperclassmen peddling "a used dollar for 75?" worked their way down a long line of waiting freshmen before they got one taker. There was too much...
...sighted in on polltakers and poll-taker-type columnists with similar resourcefulness and effect...