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A good third of the book is concerned with Smith and Roosevelt, and though Handlin does concede, "in the last analysis, Roosevelt proved the abler politician--less scrupulous, more free to maneuver, and hampered by fewer enmities," the reader must put up with several pro-Smith absurdities for every analysis...
Lean, hard-eyed "Jimmy" Thach† has a Navy reputation as a brilliantly effective man with new ideas. He earned it as World War II skipper of carrier-based Fighting Squadron Three when he used an unorthodox two-plane gunnery maneuver of his own devising (the Thach Weave), which brought...
First Among Equals. Aptest pupil in Stalin's school of political power, Khrushchev brought a new technique to Communist maneuver. Not even Stalin could match his deft juggling of friend and foe in shifting combinations and permutations. Moving into the key post of party secretary after Stalin's...
Despite the somewhat ignominious departure maneuver, which promises to become habitual, Nasser lost no time in seeking out a rostrum in Cairo to sound the new glories of the U.A.R. and its leader. In Cairo's Republic Square he thundered: "Always the Arab peoples were able to conquer invaders...
What the rebels want is to seat four new men on the company's seven-man board, and to put through a management survey of Kress to see how the chain can be made aggressive again. R. H. Kress opposed the management survey, charged that the revolt was a...