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Tshombe's main value to the United States and its allies, and his greatest personal asset, is his remarkable political resiliency. Less than two years ago, when he left the Congo after failing in his attempt to tear the country apart, he was the central government's greatest foe, opposed by the United States and most of the world. Today he is leading the central government in an attempt to hold the Congo together, and the United States is helping greatly with his military operations...
...Miss deBeers, who didn't make it in high school, it was a real Cinderella story. "My only asset is that I have the loudest voice of any person I know," she announced...
Pitzer's biggest asset is that its own inventive enthusiasm is teamed in comforting alliance with the Claremont Colleges, which will help pay Pitzer's bills until the school is self-sufficient. In the words of Classics Scholar Stephen Glass, a Pomona graduate: "There is newness here without risk...
This is a great deal to ask of one man. Senator Kennedy, however, has attracted a staff infinitely superior to most of those in Washington, and this should be his greatest asset during his next term. It is a standard criticism of Lyndon Johnson that he showed no imagination of his own though he succeeded in putting President Kennedy's program through Congress. Senator Kennedy and his associates will have the opportunity to help develop a new Democratic program during the next four years and perhaps more...
...present Auditor Theodore Buzcko, was appointed to his post after the death of his predecessor just before the primary because he was a Pole (there hadn't been any Polish constitutional officers for a while) and because he was friendly with both the Kennedy and Bellotti camps, and important asset in the strained atmosphere immediately following the primary. Buzcko himself, though a charming and ambitious man, knows practically nothing of accounting, and it is not difficult to speculate about his probable conduct in office...