Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smart Whip. Within a year of his election he was promoted to assistant whip, one of a band of Commons corporals charged with enforcing party discipline. Most ambitious young politicians shun the role, since whips are so heavily burdened with party duties that they have little chance to make their mark in the House, Heath leaped at the job, which he saw as a unique opportunity to master the subtle inner mechanisms of Parliament and party. Thanks to a natural and sometimes ruthless flair for handling men and anticipating trouble, he rose rapidly through the whips' ranks until...
Finally, when Eden's illness made his resignation inevitable, it fell to Chief Whip Heath to summon the twelve other party whips to his office at 12 Downing Street and, in effect, pick a new Prime Minister. Recalls one participant in the meeting: "Round and round we went, talking for hours - all except Ted. He listened." After listening almost all night, Heath was able to assure party chieftains that the rank and file would wholeheartedly support one man : Harold Macmillan...
Yale's English-born Roland H. Bainton, 68, a Congregationalist minister and professor of church history, was once described as "part Puck, part St. Francis, with a mixture of Erasmus." A caricaturist who likes to whip off sketches of Reinhold Niebuhr or Paul Tillich, he is also an indefatigable bicyclist whose latest two-wheeler boasts 18 gears. Few other Yale divines have done so much to spread the word in human tones. In 42 years at Yale, Bainton published 19 books (total sales: 1,500,000), notably Church of Our Fathers and Here I Stand, probably the most readable...
...sold $5,000,000 worth of them below cost and set out to restock with better goods. But to do so, he desperately needed an experienced soft-goods buyer. He ran through four merchandising managers in three years until last year he hooked boyish-looking Jack Schwadron, 36, the whip-smart scion of a family that helped to found New York's Alexander's cut-rate department stores (in which Korvette's has a 43% voting interest). Schwadron knows soft goods. More important, he knows the men who sell them...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman set up his own lobbying headquarters in House Speaker John McCormack's office, drew from one wavering Southerner a reluctant tribute: "He's the most persuasive man I've ever listened to." Illinois' Congressman Leslie C. Arends, the Republican whip, charged that Freeman, "by propaganda, by pressure, by political promises, by patronage and by projects, has been clubbing through Congress a bill that will enable him to club the farmer to his bidding." New York's Democratic Congressman Otis Pike complained in a newsletter to his Long Island constituents that...