Word: zestfulness
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Cautious Moves. It is this zest for tackling problems that appealed to Ford, who also needed Rockefeller's experience with urban problems and identification with the moderate-to-liberal wing of the Republican Party. Ford is modest enough to know that he needs help. "I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am," he once said. The two met last Saturday to discuss Rockefeller's role in the Administration. Ford plans to put Rockefeller in general charge of the Domestic Council. Rocky fans think that eventually he will become the Kissinger...
Coach George Ford said yesterday, "We had to get some offensive punch. So we moved Lyman because he has a real zest for scoring...
Taking some of the zest out of the maneuvering is the generally admitted fact that the Conservatives have no one clearly suited to be Prime Minister. Their electoral base, moreover, has markedly diminished over the past decade. In Scotland, for example, they are not even the second party, taking third place behind the Laborites and the Scottish Nationalists (see following story...
...zest for reform did not last very long. By a vote of 203 to 165, the House rejected a far-reaching committee-realignment bill proposed by Missouri Democrat Richard Boiling (TIME...
Baser Metal. Paul Erdman is an exception. Although he is not the James Joyce of high finance, he is not Jacqueline Susann either. His plots and characters tend to be simple, but he combines a zest for the intricate poetry of the big deal with the ability and cheerful willingness to explain it. His first novel, the bestselling The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, straightened out the mysterious alchemy of the international gold market. It earned added interest from Erdman himself, a financier and economist who wrote the book while a resident in the Basel prison. The Swiss government insisted that...