Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bumped to a halt in a gloomy cavern beneath Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station one evening last week. Amid the crowd that surged out onto the platform, indistinguishable from his fellow passengers except for an extra bit of height (6 ft. 1 in.) and an extra gleam in his eye, walked a middle-aged man with a battered suitcase in his hand and his coat collar turned up against the wintry drafts. As he made his way through the station to the snow-blanketed street to hail himself a taxi, nobody recognized him as one of the nation...
Unlike many logical-minded men, who can pierce to the point but often miss the surrounding nuances, Dean Rusk has an eye for the complexity of things, rejects the notion that diplomacy is simple applied common sense. "A respect for complexity is the beginning of wisdom," he says. He puts little faith in trying to cope with the complexities of foreign relations with either dramatic new policies or coups of face-to-face negotiation. A policy, he says, is "a galaxy of utterly complicated factors," not something that suddenly pops out of somebody's head. As for face...
...Pentagon. San Francisco-born, Bob McNamara was a sophomore Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California. He went on to Harvard Business School for a master's degree, taught there for three years after working briefly for the accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co. Although 4-F (eye trouble) during World War II, McNamara wangled a captain's commission in the Army Air Forces, eventually joined a team of ten young officers who were exploring the then new field of statistical control of vast Air Force supply. At war's end the team sold itself...
...secure even the smallest government post, the applicant must go through the ritual of feet mahswagaht, which means "making one's face apparent." Each morning, the applicant lines up in front of the palace and waits for the Emperor to walk past, in hope of catching the royal eye. Eventually, if lucky, he gets an audience where, with his face pressed to the floor, he blurts out his qualifications and accepts whatever favor the Emperor is in the mood to dispense. The Emperor's powerful ally is the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which owns...
...scientific highlights of any year is the Carnegie Institution's annual report on the projects it has underwritten in fields ranging from physics to plant biology. Most eye-popping items in the 1960 report, which was released last week, were the major astronomical findings made by the institution at Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories in California. Among the notable discoveries and newfound mysteries...