Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel companies run out on June 30. (Since January the Steelworkers have been running weekly newspaper advertisements touting the national economic benefits that would flow from an "Extra Billion Dollars" in Steelworkers' hands.) Big wage or fringe-benefit boosts in steel, with or without a strike, might well touch off a new wage-price spiral. Against that threat President Eisenhower gave stern warning at his news conference last week. "Here is a place where labor and management must show statesmanship," said the President, making an almost unprecedented statement on labor-management negotiations specifically impending. The "measure of their statesmanship...
Like any ranking Army officer, General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, 59, has a soldier's talents for open warfare, but like few he has a diplomat's deft touch for the quiet, unsung victory. Last week President Eisenhower, no mean soldier-diplomat himself, picked General Lemnitzer as the next Army Chief of Staff, to succeed retiring General Maxwell Taylor, 57, next July 1. Lemnitzer was the only new man on the President's list of appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Air Force's General Nathan Farragut Twining, 61, was reappointed chairman; Chief of Naval...
Hunger for Growth. The Midas touch has brought burly Lou Chesler most of the material possessions a man could desire: a 54-ft. yacht, a $250,000 Long Island estate, half ownership of a three-year-old Kentucky Derby hopeful named Atoll, firm control of two growing companies, vast investments in other stocks and Canadian real estate. Still he wants more. Recently he tried to merge Universal with Underwood Corp., got a cool reception and retreated. What makes Lou Chesler run? Answers Chesler: "I just cannot resist the challenge of an obvious business opportunity. Though this may sound corny...
...tremendous organizer, Michiko was elected president of the student governing committee and began to be called sotsu-no-nai, which roughly means "perfect," but also has a snide connotation of being a little too perfect, too ladylike, too obedient to the rules. A professor once said with a touch of asperity: "Michiko-san, your only defect is that you have none." She appeared taken aback by the remark...
...frank eroticism of Fragonard's art, it is almost never vulgar. "His decency," said the brothers De Goncourt, "consists in the lightness of his touch." That seductive decency illuminated an exhibition of French drawings at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum last week which featured Fragonard. His Fireworks, as the De Goncourts noted, has "an unrivaled deftness ... its sparks darting here and there, upon a shoulder or a thigh, flickering all over the bed of the three charming heroines of the picture...