Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week was ordered to stand trial in a federal court on Sept. 26 in connection with the killing of the three rights workers. "Oh, yes," said King, "you're the one who had Schwerner and the other fel lows in jail?" "Yes, sir," said Price with a touch of pride...
...willingness to challenge the odds; those qualities may merely add up to leadership. "Heroism should not be confused with strength and success," says Author John Updike. "Our concept of the hero must be humanized to include the ideas of sacrifice and death, even of failure." The hero also must touch people's emotions. In modern jargon, that means someone who "turns people...
Feisal lives instead in a smaller economy model. Saud's beloved fleet of Cadillacs has given way to a pair of Chrysler New Yorkers, and with a deftly democratic touch, Feisal always sits up front next to the driver. To get just as close to the people, Feisal holds a daily majlis (assembly) and invites everyone-from the richest merchant to the scruffiest Bedouin-to come and get his gripes off his chest. "We believe," says Feisal, "that we represent democracy in its highest form, though its structure may be alien to Western ways...
...Many Are Afraid." In the art of acquisition, Canadian-born Cummings has the connoisseur's touch. He likes to buy the works of recognized painters, unblinkingly paid $92,500 for Picasso's Woman with Flowers. Doing corporate deals, Cummings looks for moneymakers whose owners might like the strength and size of Consolidated. He closes deals rapidly, sometimes in just one day. "If they don't go quickly," he says, "they usually never go." He scrutinizes a prospect's book value, sales and earnings reports, also examines advertising budgets because "advertising is closely related to consumer demand...
...catalogue of Ike's complaints is considerable: swollen and painful wrists and hands; a touch of arthritis in the left knee, presumably the result of an old football injury; bursitis in the left elbow, similar to some old trouble in his right shoulder. But neither for him nor his fellow sufferers is any preventive medicine effective. Indeed, it took Walter Reed's expert doctors weeks of tests before they could put the label "osteoarthritis" on their patient's wrist pains. After that, the prescription was as simple as the diagnosis had been painstaking: aspirin to ease...