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Verwoerd is one of the ablest white leaders that Africa has ever produced. He has a photographic memory, an analytical mind and an endless capacity for work. He is a brilliant diplomat and an inventive politician. He is the inspired defender of the Afrikaner faith, the unquestioned captain of the Afrikaner laager. But his fortress is vulnerable and his enemy within. So taut are the nerves of South Africa's blacks that twice in recent months crashes of African commuter trains have set the passengers off in bloody rioting against their white engineers. Outside his confident country, there...
...going to run ever again for any public office under any circumstances - there are no equivocations of that statement." And so, after one term in Congress and almost four years in the Pennsylvania Statehouse, ended the political career of Bill Scranton, 48, one of the U.S.'s ablest executives and one of the Republican Party's brightest lights...
...that irritated him, he said, was a comment in the Saturday Evening Post by Columnist Stewart Alsop: "The President's passion to know everything and to control everything makes him an immensely difficult man to work for, which surely accounts in part for the bleeding ulcer of the ablest of his aides, Bill Moyers." Said Fleming: "I would suggest it would not have been hard for Stewart Alsop to know, as I knew well before I went to the White House, that Bill Moyers' grandfather died of an ulcer, his father almost died in December of an ulcer...
...University of Ibadan," Parry helped to create in Africa a university similar in many respects to Cambridge. He recalls that "we drove the students hard and they took their studies very seriously." Admission was competitive--only about 15% of the applicants were accepted. "We set out to catch the ablest boys, since the courses we designed were every bit as hard as those at Harvard or Cambridge...
Five years, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara once remarked, is about the longest any man should serve in a top Administration job. Of the eight men who have held the Defense post since it was created in 1947, he is by all odds the ablest and most controversial (TIME, Jan. 21). Yet as he entered his sixth year on the job, Mc Namara, 49, showed no signs of battle fatigue. Nor, for that matter, did the three other durable men who celebrated their fifth anniversaries as Cabinet officers last week...