Word: post
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...solid Republican, Dillon wrote foreign-policy speeches for Dewey in 1948, was an early bird for Ike in 1951. After the 1952 campaign, he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Paris. No post could have made Dillon happier. His family owned one of the finest vineyards in the Bordeaux region, Château Haut-Brion, and his cousin, a resident of France who served his adopted country with distinction during the Occupation, was possibly the only native of the U.S. ever elected mayor of a French village. Though Dillon spoke fluent French, he took an hour's instruction daily...
Presenting Face. Though Haile Selassie describes his government as "state socialism," it is in fact still absolute monarchy. To 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...
...Scornful Laugh. What resurrected the cry for protection-besides Premier Diefenbaker's political priming of what he likes to call "pro-Canadianism"-is the fast-spreading U.S. technique of "split-run" advertising; starting late last year, the Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, LIFE and Look opened Canadian-circulation copies to specifically Canadian advertising. Canadian magazines, led by Maclean's (circ. 515,577)-professed to see the handwriting on the wall...
...Western ways in his next opera, which proved to be his last. Ten months later. The Story of a Real Man was submitted to the Composers' Union, was promptly banned as "anti-melodious" and still reeking with "the decay of bourgeois culture." Now, long after his official post-Stalin rehabilitation and seven years after his death (on the same day as Stalin's), Prokofiev's Real Man is finally being performed for Moscow audiences...
...Henry Ford II, 43, chairman and chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Co., reassumed the post of president vacated by Robert S. McNamara, who resigned to become Defense Secretary (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ford is filling the post only temporarily, touching off a guessing game as to who will be the next president. Among the most likely candidates: John Bugas, 52, vice president of Ford's international group; James O. Wright, 48, chief of Ford's car-and-truck division (McNamara's job before he became president...