Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Money.Minor races and purses never excited Arcaro much ("Cheap horses don't need management-they just run"). As a strategist, he was at his incomparable best when going for the big money in big-stakes races and high-priced handicaps...
Brooks achieved his greatest triumph this winter, downing Yale 48-47 and finishing the season with a perfect 10-0 record to take the Eastern crown. In three years at Harvard the highly popular pool strategist has complied an impressive 28-2 mark...
Speakers of Garbage. Singling out Aníbal Escalante, 53, third-ranking Cuban Red after Party Boss Blas Roca and Strategist Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, Castro launched a violent attack. Escalante and other party men like him were working to undermine the revolution by setting up underground cells to seize control of all revolutionary institutions. Already the old guerrilla fighters were being shunted aside by party functionaries. "Did they think they won the revolution in a raffle?" cried Castro. The "boastfulness" of the old Communist militants and the belief that those who do not belong to them...
...Tory-minded Daily Telegraph put it more temperately: "The country is saying it does not like the government it has got, but it's still a long way from deciding what alternative to choose." Tory Strategist Macleod is confident that if the party sinks low enough in by-elections, it will bounce back in time for the general election that Macmillan is expected to call some time next year. Said he: "How should Conservatives act now? I offer you the Clan Macleod motto: 'Hold Fast...
Died. Walter Clark Teagle, 83, former president and board chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey, a brilliant industrial strategist with the bulldog build and weatherbeaten face of an oilfield rousta bout; after a long illness; in Byram, Conn. The son and grandson of wealthy oilmen, Teagle rebuilt Standard after it was fragmented by a court decree in 1911, before he retired in 1942 mapped the overseas operations that made the company a world power in oil, but spared enough attention from his headlong expansion of Standard to pioneer in worker representation on refinery councils and (in 1915) the eight...