Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest frustration is the Mekong River Delta, where 55% of South Viet Nam's population is centered and 75% of its rice is grown. The peasants there have resisted the hamlet program-and have often been forcibly resettled in fortified villages-because they resent having to walk miles to their paddies. In a successful attack on two hamlets last month, some 2,000 villagers simply vanished. The Reds are particularly hard to flush out of the delta because they often are impossible to distinguish from peaceful peasants. On the other hand, U.S. Special Service troops-"Sneaky Petes"-have made...
...Gallic name of Machines Bull has just added another contribution: the Eu-rocheck. Ready to switch to the magnetic-ink system of automatic checking now spreading throughout the U.S., European nations have been looking around for the best system. To many, it seemed that the firm likeliest to walk away with the biggest fistful of orders was IBM, whose sales in France alone were up 41% last year. But scrappy Machines Bull has soundly tweaked the giant's nose. Virtually every country in Western Europe has now picked the Bull system over the method used by U.S. banks...
...herself described (by such an expert as Designer Cecil Beaton) as "an authoritative crane." Though she is a generous flatterer of the physical attributes of others, even her own admiring friends must strain to return a compliment ("Well," said one, straining, "she has a strange and marvelous spine"). Her walk has been described as a camel's gait, her nose as something stolen off a cigar-store Indian. Yet thousands of women cut their hair because of her, cream their skins, shorten their sleeves, and belt their coats, all at the iron whim of a woman whose face...
Leopard & Incense. It is a role she adores, and she plays it to the hilt. At close to 60, she moves with supersonic speed. She doesn't walk, she strides; she doesn't talk, she broadcasts. She surrounds herself with the calculated and the outlandish, paints her Manhattan office walls adulterous red, covers the floor with simulated leopard skin, burns incense through the day. She invents cliches and talks in capital letters, whether dismissing a contender for the best-dressed ranks ("On her, EVERYTHING looks like a chandelier") or praising a swatch of material ("I ADORE that pink...
...influential corporate executive who is expected to combine the brains of a scientist with the intuition of a soothsayer: the corporate planner. "Ideally," says Vice President John P. Gallagher of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, "the corporate planner would have a law degree, an engineering degree, and be able to walk on water." That ideal has not yet been reached, but more than 700 U.S. companies now have formal planners -and the idea is so new that 500 of the companies have hired their planners only in the past four years...