Word: ablest
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REPRESENTATIVE BARBER CONABLE, 50, is one of those Congressmen little known to the public but highly regarded by colleagues in the House. A moderate from upstate New York, he is one of the ablest Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee and has fought hard for legislation requiring complete campaign-funding disclosures. He was the leading Republican backing the Legislative Reorganization...
...Paul Robeson and Rockwell Kent in proceedings that finally resulted in a 1958 Supreme Court decision ending State Department restrictions on international travel by leftists. All told, Boudin has argued before the Supreme Court 15 or 20 times (the late Justice John Harlan once listed him among the ten ablest lawyers to appear before the court...
...knowing him and without the full disclosure of his records, some say he might well fit a fairly common depression syndrome: the ambitious, energetic and successful person who at moments of achievement envisions even higher goals that seem depressingly out of reach. It is, oddly, an illness of the ablest. Says Washington Psychiatrist Zigmond Lebensohn of Eagleton: "The very fact that he reached out for help is healthy." While recurrence of depression cannot be ruled out, the fact that Eagleton has gone six years without treatment and has performed effectively in office makes it less likely. Lebensohn says he treated...
...Conservatives' return to power, Prime Minister Heath has lost the services of all three of his longtime colleagues. Macleod died in 1970, shortly after becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer. Powell was excluded from the Cabinet because of his racist views. Last week Maudling, 55, certainly one of the ablest members of the 1950 class, fell. He resigned abruptly as Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, the innocent if disappointingly naive victim of a private business scandal...
Humphrey comes to Miami Beach with the second most delegates, still the happy warrior of what McGovern derides as the old politics, now dressed in mod suits for his third (he is 61) stab at the presidency. He may still be the ablest man in the Democratic ranks, but his all too familiar image and his promises of everything for everyone have hurt him. Still, he narrowly lost to McGovern in California; had he won, it might have turned things around. In a way, the most lugubrious legacy being brought to Miami Beach is that of Edmund Muskie, who seemed...