Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ranging Search. To lead his reorganized administration, Lindsay has enlisted a team of what he calls "great urbanists" as his aides. He has largely ignored the tradition -honored even by Reformer La Guardia -of divvying most of the spoils among local politicos, has ranged the nation in search of talented men. Despite complaints from the press about his free hand, he pays them salaries that go above $30,000, an incentive to talent that few big cities offer. Among those who have answered Lindsay's call: » Mitchell Sviridoff, 47, who made New Haven's antipoverty program famous...
...number of students, however, are clearly skeptical about whether, in some cases at least, the talent for teaching amounts to much...
...Poetic Talent. Kurt Kiesinger seemed fated for a conciliator's role. His home is in Swabia, a good-natured area of Germany that lacks the fierce regional pride that burns so intensely in many parts. He came from a home that was both Lutheran (his father) and Catholic (his stepmother), though he himself is a Catholic today. His regal bearing leads most people to think he is an aristocrat, but he springs, in fact, from a lower-middle-class family, in which he was the eldest of seven children. His father?now a sprightly 90?was a bookkeeper...
...their instruments). Says Boston's Leinsdorf: "Uniformly, the women's pride is so great that their attendance record is better than the men's. They have my utmost respect." But women rarely get the utmost money, and most orchestra managers freely admit that given equal talent, they will hire the breadwinning man over the woman every time...
...will be some time before the three will be on their own in directing Cone & Co. It is not surprising that Cone has lined them up while he and the other senior citizens are still in charge, for he has always been highly sensitive to the critical role of talent in advertising. Unlike most businesses, he says, "our inventory goes down the elevator every night...