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...thing, sir. May I mention that Plum Pie, thanks to the information I provided, also contains rather cutting portrayals of a number of your-er, associates, notably Bingo Little, Cyril Grooly, Freddie Threepwood and Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. One feels that you emerge as the ablest...
...longtime Minnesota friend, calls Scammon "one of the smartest men in town," adds: "He isn't just a statistician-he's a profound and deep student." British Political Scientist Harold Laski, under whom Scammon studied for a year at the London School of Economics, pronounced him "the ablest American student I ever had." CBS's Washington Commentator Eric Sevareid, a University of Minnesota classmate, ascribes a "flypaper memory" to Scammon, says, "he's always startling you by coming up with the vote in some borough in England in 1872." His mastery of U.S. statistics is even...
...December, 1962, when Diem assigned him to the command of the 5th, or Anti-Coup, Division, strategically positioned just north of Saigon. Thieu was put there because Diem did not trust the previous commander, Nguyen Due Thang, now Thieu's Minister for Revolutionary Development and one of the ablest Vietnamese officials around...
...regarded the situation in the Middle East as anything other than a very grave one is erroneous," insisted a Foggy Bottom spokesman. "The Middle East," President Johnson told a news conference, "has occupied a good deal of our thoughts, our attention, and the time of some of the ablest leaders in our Government ever since I came into the executive branch in 1961. It still does." As the new diplomatic phase opened, the effects of all that attention were not readily evident...
...implication that the shift would mean a permanent slowdown in desegregation efforts; indeed centralization might in time speed up integration of welfare programs and of nursing homes. Unquestionably, though, it will result in at least a temporary pause while administrative gears are shifted. For Gardner, one of the ablest and most popular Administration figures on Capitol Hill, the shift promises nothing but trouble. Asked if it meant "transferring the kitchen across the street"-putting the heat on him instead of Howe-Gardner smiled wanly and replied: "I wouldn't be surprised...