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Wilson's strong suit has been his shrewd tactical sense-that of a cunning strategist who knew how to pick his way through, as he once put it, "political traps and minefields." Always a much more complex man than his natural ebullience and everpresent pipe suggest, he provides few glimpses of his inner self and has no close political cronies. At 58, his tastes, like his upbringing as the son of a Yorkshire industrial chemist, are unpretentious: detective stories, raspberries, a nip of brandy. Each summer, he spends three weeks in his cottage on the desolate Scilly Isles (where...
...shrewd choice. Kalmbach's solid but unspectacular career as a real estate lawyer was instantly touched with gold. In 1968 his firm had only two other lawyers. By 1970 the number of attorneys had jumped to 14, and by 1973 to 24. Suddenly major clients from all over the nation were eager to sign up with the attorney who represented the President: United Air Lines, Dart Industries Inc., the Marriott Corp., MCA Inc. (the dominant producer of prime-time TV shows). National companies traditionally seek out lawyers who have friends and clients in high places in Washington, and Kalmbach...
With that kind of image, Democrat Robert Docking, 48, was elected to an unprecedented four straight terms as Governor in a traditionally Republican state. A shrewd yet kindly-looking man with warm brown eyes, Bob Docking was such a formidable vote getter that for a time he was unable to decide whether to try for a fifth term this fall or run for the Senate against Incumbent Robert Dole, who had the bad luck to be the Republican national chairman when Watergate broke...
Merle, a Frenchman who teaches English at the Sorbonne, is shrewd in his development of Comte as a benevolent Machiavellian. To counter a marauding band armed with a bazooka, Comte sets about re-creating the art of war. To deal with a neighboring town of survivors ruled by a pseudo priest named Fulbert, Comte recovers the art of diplomacy and the balance of power...
...shrewd businessmen reasoned that if women were interested in "liberation" then they might like a taste of the same erotic literature men have been savoring for years. The results are Viva and Playgirl...