Word: timing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only time she panics is when she's left with nothing to do," says Lerner, who figures she must get her energy from "simplifying her life. She has 20 pairs of beige slacks, white shirts and black sweaters. When she gets up in the morning, she knows what she's going to wear. She never considers what she's going to have for dinner because her cook knows she eats very simply. All the decisions that exhaust the normal person, she has eliminated...
...makes a great artist. Simplifying, simplifying, simplifying." She relaxes by playing tennis or taking long walks. When she and Director Michael Benthall worked on The Millionairess, she used to insist that he run around the Central Park reservoir with her every morning. "It nearly killed me," he recalls. "This time I refused. I'd have a heart attack...
Shultz's conviction that imposed agreements are often fragile and brittle closely parallels President Nixon's thinking. The Labor Secretary has a talent for translating the President's theory into policy, and that has made him one of the most powerful men in Washington. As TIME Washington Correspondent Marvin Zim reports: "If politicians gave a rookie-of-the-year award, the prize for 1969 would go to Shultz. After coming to Washington without any political experience, he has clearly become a top Cabinet officer, an adviser whose counsel is sought and whose judgment bears extra distinction simply...
...Have Bananas. Shultz is the first economist to become Secretary of Labor, a post usually assigned to lawyers. He labors hard himself, arriving at his desk at 7:30 a.m. and often returning to work in the evening, with occasional time out for tennis or golf. Once he beat A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany by ten strokes (80 to 90). Son of a New York Stock Exchange official, Shultz graduated from Princeton in 1942 with an honors degree in economics. During World War II, he was a major in the Marines. He earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics at M.I.T...
Provided that Congress approves and allocates enough money. Nixon's proposals will make some major advances toward what he called "a just marketplace." The main items, many of which Nader has been campaigning for: > Consumers for the first time will be permitted to join together in "class actions" in federal court and share the legal expenses of suing manufacturers and merchants guilty of deception. Convicted manufacturers will have to bear all legal costs and pay damages to all who sue. Nixon's proposal, however, does not go as far as Nader and others have demanded. Class-action suits...