Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prevail, defraud me of my lovely prize. And what a signal victory: all hail, Great strategist, by whom no blood...
...World War II diaries, converted into a book titled The Turn of the Tide and published this week in Britain, Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, Britain's top wartime strategist, bluntly assesses many of his military contemporaries, including the three U.S. generals leading the conflict. Alanbrooke's impressions of Soldier Dwight Eisenhower: "He learned a lot during the war, but strategy, tactics and command were never his strong points." Ike was a great overall coordinator, but "perhaps his greatest asset was a greater share of luck than most of us receive in life." Of George Catlett Marshall...
...Tallahassee, Miami, New Orleans-Negro leaders look toward Montgomery, Ala., the cradle of the Confederacy, for advice and counsel on how to gain the desegregation that the U.S. Supreme Court has guaranteed them. The man whose word they seek is not a judge, or a lawyer, or a political strategist or a flaming orator. He is a scholarly, 28-year-old Negro Baptist minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who in little more than a year has risen from nowhere to become one of the nation's remarkable leaders...
...political skill but also because of his genuine appeal to the U.S. electorate. By Nov. 6 the young (43) Vice President will have traveled 42,000 miles by airplane, train and car, will have made more than 150 campaign speeches in 36 states.* He has been a field strategist as well as a campaigner, firing back his analysis of what other G.O.P. campaigners can do, where and when they should do it. As his travels have progressed, his crowds have grown in size and warmth, and he has given the G.O.P. cause a vital lift all over the U.S. Says...
...previous changes-in President Eisenhower since the campaign began. Said one of them last week: "The President seems to have reached a new plane of serenity, almost of self-detachment." Four years in the White House have sharpened his political ear, toughened his belief in himself as a political strategist. But along with this has come a new warmth and understanding. Gone are the occasional flashes of temper that were once the terror of his staff-and of his opponents. They have been replaced by an equanimity and inner ease that is reflected in his desire to campaign chiefly...