Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Assistant Attorney General Doar is tailor-made for what Strategist Marshall says is the Justice Department's future civil rights task-"a straightforward matter of litigation, requiring primarily administrative skills, hard work and good lawyers." In short, the job now calls for a man who sounds exactly like John Doar...
...years ago the varsity swimming team went to West Point to face a strong Army team that was favored on paper by at least ten points. But the statistics ignored Harvard coach and master strategist Bill Brooks. Brooks surprised the Cadets in almost every event and Harvard came home with a 51-44 upset victory...
REMINISCENCES, by Douglas MacArthur. The grand strategist concentrates on World War II, the occupation of Japan, and Korea. The generosity and wisdom that characterized his leadership in the reconstruction of Japan are told with restraint, his firing by Truman in Korea as bitterly as if it had happened yesterday. A good writer, MacArthur comes through as a proud, realistic and yet oddly romantic...
...hewn of anthracite. Bauer looks, says one Oriole player, "like an M-l ready to go off." He commands respect, he commands obedience, and he commands a certain amount of controversy. His own boss, Oriole General Manager Lee MacPhail, calls him "no great shakes as a baseball strategist" and says that he "manages by instinct." But Third Baseman Robinson, who prides himself on being a strategist, says: "On the plays Hank has pulled that I don't agree with, he has proved to be right 95% of the time." One thing is certain: if the Baltimore Orioles...
...Suicide. Historians smile at the thought. In 81 years, the Phils have won only two pennants (in 1915 and 1950), and Mauch may be the only manager in history who took a demotion from the minors to the major leagues. A tense, cold-eyed baseball strategist who took the Minneapolis Millers to two straight Junior World Series, he got the Philadelphia job in 1960 when Eddie Sawyer quit after the first game, explaining, "I'm 49 years old and I want to live to be 50." The Phils welcomed their new manager the way they knew best: by finishing...