Word: zeal
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...country. Yet some of the criticism has doubtless been unfair. He has never been a policymaker and, despite his experience as Texas Democratic chairman, never was a political technician of national stature. He functioned strictly as an operations officer who followed his chief's orders with uncritical zeal. Traditionally, a Postmaster General devotes much of his time to high-level politicking. With Johnson out of the race, however, General Watson may be able to give full attention to improving the postal service. It will also give Watson a chance to come out of obscurity and run his own shop...
...Point. As a result, peace talks or not, General Abrams is certain to encounter considerably more heavy fighting in the South when he takes over from Westmoreland. Fortunately for the U.S., intensive fighting is an art at which Abrams has long demonstrated both instinctive mastery and uncommon zeal. Born in Feeding Hills, Mass., the son of a repairman on the Boston & Albany railroad, Creighton Abrams grew up learning to drill tin cans with a rifle, raising baby beef as a 4-H farm boy, and driving around in his Model T. In high school he was both an outstanding student...
Sermon & Song. In the pursuit of "relevancy," Negro churches in the North have been returning to the soulful spirit of the past in worship-and becoming more militant in political concern. Many congregations that had tried to imitate the sobriety of their white counterparts are again beginning to emphasize zeal and fervor in both sermon and song. And Negro pastors-although still a voice of reason in the ghetto-are getting tougher. One of Detroit's most militant black power leaders now is the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., who calls his Central United Church of Christ "the shrine...
...company to insure new Israeli enterprises. Retired Republic Corp. Chairman Victor M. Carter pronounced himself "happy and satisfied" with a personal $2 million investment in Israel, then produced plans for $30 million worth of new projects involving Itek and other U.S. companies. Such was the entrepreneurial zeal that, during one committee session, a Manhattan businessman jumped to his feet to cry: "I want to buy 100,000 pairs of women's hose here. Who will sell them...
...HARVARD is indeed a microcosm of American society," the Association of African and Afro-American Students said in a statement Monday. And Afro itself has given the Harvard community some sense of the grief, anger, and heightened zeal for rapid reform which Martin Luther King's death has aroused in black Americans. What Afro has done and said in the last few days leaves whites with a mixture of sympathy and consternation...