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...surely considerations to a degree. I can't say that I was an introvert before the experience nor really an after it. It surely did do much, however, in getting out of my own individual world into the wide, wide of many delightful people. This has been an asset incalculable value and pleasure to me. Since I felt I never achieve this because of my lack of athletic confidence the opportunity of the Managership was invaluable...
...Estes Kefauver-corralling, along the way, a strong voting strength from the South, the Eastern Seaboard and his native New England. Kennedy's case was powerfully helped when Connecticut Democratic Boss John Bailey circulated a memo showing that Kennedy's Roman Catholicism would be a political asset to the ticket in the industrial states...
...have been robbed of their due by an Eisenhower veto, he has told schoolteachers that the Republicans are responsible for run-down school buildings and low teacher salaries. He took hold of an attack on his religion led by the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale and turned it into an asset with his courageous question-and-answer session with the Houston ministers-and his lieutenants saw to it that the film of the session was telecast in key Catholic as well as Protestant areas. In the grueling ordeal of the presidential campaign, his qualities of steadiness served him well...
Perhaps the strongest defensive asset the Tigers can claim is their clever goalie, Mickey Michel, In cold, rain, and muck here last year, Michel turned in several acrobatic sayes, and more than any other Tiger contributed to Princeton's 1-0 victory...
Look-Alike. The bank's least hidden asset is its first president, a plump, articulate Chilean named Felipe Herrera. Once a Socialist, and at 38 still prone to consider banking economics as mere means to social ends, Herrera has labored nonstop to get the bank going ever since he was elected last February. By his own methodical count, he has been on the road 92 days, visited 19 countries, explained the bank to 18 Presidents, 3 Presidents-elect, 85 government ministers, 42 political party leaders ("while gaining six pounds and losing seven shirts and five handkerchiefs...