Word: talent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He was lured away from his plans to teach history by the better starting pay of a $25-a-week reporting job on the Washington Post. (Said the Post in an editorial last week: "Mr. Donovan... is a man of such enormous professional talent and personal distinction that whatever he does for the Carter presidency is bound to be a plus.") Donovan covered the State Department, Capitol Hill and the White House before serving as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He began his 34-year career at Time...
...want to do, and like it." In succeeding stories 24 prominent Americans select the leaders now living who they believe have contributed most to the nation, and there is a review of what has happened to the 200 TIME leaders of 1974. Finally, TIME surveys the nation for promising talent and proposes 50 new faces for the future...
Does all this mean that the talent for leadership has abruptly disappeared from the American genes? Absolutely not. The reasons for the current problems of leadership lie deeper. Societies may not always get the leadership they deserve and need, but they get a leadership that reflects the nature of the nation's power and the condition of its followers...
...inspirational and the managerial. If it is hard to inspire people now, it is even harder to manage their problems. "There is a difference between winning an election and governing," says Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. The first black elected mayor of a major Southern city, Jackson brought a talent for improvisational politics to bear on the construction of Atlanta's new Midfield Airport terminal, which, when it opens in 1980, will be the largest air passenger building in the world. Among other things, Jackson persuaded Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge to summon Georgia Congressmen and federal, state and local officials concerned...
Despite new hazards and constraints, there is no shortage of talent; leaders are continuing to emerge across...