Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidency), Lee Talley, 59, will have more work to do-but he can hardly have more enthusiasm for it. Talley has been with Coca-Cola since he left Atlanta's Emory University has a firm respect for the company's 75-year traditions and the required zeal to conquer the world for Coke. Taking over from retiring Chairman William E. Robinson, Talley is the first man to hold both top posts at Coca-Cola, will probably continue Coke's diversification (Minute Maid orange juice, flavored soft drinks) and step up the war with Pepsi-Cola...
Many men with natural distinction of mind-Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Whittaker Chambers and Gustav Regler -have tried to read the Marxist riddle. By what stages does the self-sacrificing zeal of the idealist recruit to Communism become converted into the coldly inhuman amorality of the full-fledged apparatus man in the party's higher echelons? What turns the Utopian dream of universal brotherhood into the nightmare reality of the police state...
...recent White House meeting of Klotz and his counterparts from the other departments of Government, someone suggested that it might be a good idea for officials to give President Kennedy greater play in their speeches and announcements. Everyone else has treated the matter casually, but Herbie Klotz, filled with zeal, hurried back to his office, composed his memo, and sent it flying around the Commerce Department...
...zeal, American gamblers have had to bow to only one faction: the reformers. Despite brief flurries of success, reformers have never got far. Jonathan F. Green, "The Reformed Gambler," sparked an antigambling drive in the 19th century and made more money on it than he had on gambling. He was so popular that he often put on three or four shows a night exposing gambling tricks. No one illustrated better what the reformers are up against than a North Carolina gambler named-naturally-Pittsburgh Phil. When the doctor told him that he had only 24 hours to live, Pittsburgh Phil...
...official Washington last week, there seemed to be secret admiration for Frank Ellis and all his zeal. Even the New Fron tier's boss seemed less annoyed than bewildered. After a recent strenuous, desk-pounding session with Ellis, the President had a plaintive question. "How," he asked, "did we ever carry Louisiana?" The obvious answer: by the same determined tactics that Ellis was using at OCDM...