Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gibbons, hard-boiled Hoffa deputy from St. Louis, who made his breakfasts politically tasty by flying in union leaders from the home regions of each day's new group of House guests. No fewer than 245 Congressmen heard Host Gibbons introduce Persuader Zagri as his own "community relations" expert from St. Louis. "We are not against legislation," said Zagri smoothly, "but this bill is so defective . . ." Zagri's precise speech and trained legal mind (U.C.L.A., Harvard, University of Wisconsin) sent the guests away impressed; for his part, Zagri methodically rated each Congressman from...
...followup, Zagri concentrated on the Labor Committee's 30 members, developed an easy ally in Chicago Democrat Roman Pucinski (A in the book) and half a dozen others. Zagri also appeared before the committee as an expert witness, and offered no fewer than 59 pages of bill-gutting amendments. Teamster-touting Democrat Jimmy Roosevelt (A) of California introduced the Zagri proposals as a substitute bill...
...just twelve hours one day last week, Fidel Castro boldly and brutally crushed his puppet President, Manuel Urrutia. With an expert and cynical maneuver, Strongman Castro set a mob on the Presidential Palace, then went on television to denounce Urrutia as a "traitor." Not since the time in the 1930s when Dictator Fulgencio Batista went through five puppets in two years had a President of Cuba been treated with such contempt...
Page from Perón. To fire Urrutia with maximum dramatic effect Castro borrowed a trick from another expert demagogue, Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, who once "quit" office to provoke an outburst of public support. The news hit Havana one morning by way of 5½-in. type in Castro's mouthpiece newspaper, Revolución: FIDEL RESIGNS...
...first, A.R.S. hoped to make hobby rocketry safe by expert supervision, asked scientists and military men to help the amateurs. But now it thinks rockets are best left alone altogether. The game has grown too big and too dangerous. All told, says A.R.S., some 10,000 amateurs are fiddling around with rockets today. During a sample six-week period, 162 of them were seriously injured. At that rate, a teen-age rocketeer has one chance in seven of getting hurt each year...