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...organization was more than a little embarrassed at having to defend itself against charges pressed by its own chief lawyer. The N.A.A.C.P. board of directors, said General Counsel Robert Carter, acted in a manner that was "arbitrary, demeaning and intolerable" when it fired Lewis Steel, 31, one of his ablest staff attorneys...
Everyone admires efficiency, but no one can readily tolerate an efficient man. He is, after all, a rebuke to others. As a result, most efficient men diplomatically try to appear less efficient than they are. Not Robert McNamara. The ablest of the nation's Secretaries of Defense refused to play "Lovable Bob" for Congressmen, some of whom did not forgive him. Now he is running something of the same risk with his reading public. The Essence of Security is not the gossipy memoir or the in-fighter's recollection that many readers might prefer. Rather...
...free radio stations that had sustained the Czechoslovaks in the first days of invasion and uncertainty faded out, and state censorship was reimposed. Tourists and foreign correspondents were turned back at the borders. A great exodus began, as thousands of the country's ablest professors, artists, writers and journalists fled to freedom in the West. Gradually, inexorably, the little country that for eight months gave promise of showing Communism the way into the modern world-and for eight days dared defy its oppressors-slipped back into the dark age of a Stalinist-style police state...
Doctrinaire intellectual Socialist, the P.S.U. is largely the length and shadow of Mendes-France, the best-known and ablest Premier of the Fourth Republic. Mendes-France was the only important figure from the world of conventional politics to appear at student rallies throughout the crisis. He is the most widely admired anti-Gaullist and is regarded by the students as the nearest thing to an over-30 political guru. He is an opponent of the presidential system and the likeliest candidate to head a provisional government should the Gaullist Republic fall. With few seats in the old Assembly but many...
...numbed to grasp full command of the story until several hours after the shooting. Huntley and Brinkley seemed uncommonly beside the point; the early reporting hours demanded more footwork and fast talk-and less punditry. NBC anchorman Frank McGee shared with Sander Vanocur the credit for the coolest and ablest reporting on any channel...