Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLD-WAR STRATEGIST, presiding over a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council to discuss the U.S.'s next moves in Cuba...
Newsmen on the move: > Emmet John Hughes, 41, is quitting as policy adviser to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, will become columnist for Newsweek. A former TIME chief of correspondents, Hughes turned behind-scenes political strategist and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, shifted to Rockefeller in 1960. But in such work, he says, he missed the pleasure of speaking his own mind. He has already written America the Vincible, a turgid criticism of Eisenhower's foreign policy; now he is prepared to take another public swipe at his old boss with a new book, Eisenhower: A Political Memoir...
Michigan Democrat Neil Staebler, a longtime backstage strategist, for weeks scoffed at the demands of Republican Alvin Bentley, a millionaire former Congressman, for a Cuba blockade. Cried he: "Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of history should know that a blockade is an instrument of war. Is Bentley proposing that we sink Soviet freighters?" Bentley was indeed, and now he is making the most of his I-told-you-so chances. Florida Republican Edward J. Gurney, a war hero and former mayor of Winter Park claims that Kennedy's decision to blockade "was forced upon him by the leaders...
...would be foolhardy in another sailor. At one point he drove Weatherly through an opponent's windless lee in a maneuver about as difficult, wrote one reporter, "as driving a golf ball through a wall." But sailors have come to expect that of blocky Bus Mosbacher. A master strategist, famed for his starts, Mosbacher likes to think of himself as a quarterback, figuring the odds against every gamble. "A sailing race," he says, "is like a football game: the quarterback must watch everything-not just the end to whom he's going to pass...
...except Alfred Hitchcock, the birds' strategist and director. "It makes me tired just watching them," he says, surveying the work of the millions of birds he has cast in his new horror movie, The Birds. "Thank goodness I'm only paying them bird seed...