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...recent years, Lodge has been recognized as one of the ablest men in the Senate. In two important areas of policy -military affairs and foreign affairs-his grasp is especially firm. When Vandenberg fell ill and retired from active leadership, most observers thought the mantle of Republican leadership in foreign policy would fall on Cabot Lodge. But somehow, the mantle never fitted...
There were two good reasons why the coup was quiet: 1) all the nation's armed forces for once" were on the same side; 2) efficient strong-man Premier Phibun Songgram, the ablest engineer of coups in the country, had staged this one against himself to streamline his government. After four hours, during which he was thrown out of office by prearrangement with his generals, admirals and air marshals, the Premier re-emerged at the head of a government more powerful than ever...
...their quality of teaching is not outstanding." He further charged that, "the low salary scale, the lack of clerical and other assistance, burden of work imposed, and petty policies in top administrative circles have made it impossible to attract first class professors to Yale or even retain our ablest young...
...part of his time over the past 30 years in attempting to understand successive younger generations and to interpret them to themselves, and who finds this present younger generation in many ways the most puzzling and interesting in the series, your article seems to me by all odds the ablest and truest analysis which I have seen. I wouldn't alter a phrase or add a sentence...
...wisely junks the play's long speeches designed to draw parallels between McLeod's rigid zeal and the evils of the police state. Apart from a few other changes to tone down the facts of underworld life, he leaves the play intact, and includes some of its ablest original performers: Lee Grant, hilarious as a man-hungry shoplifter who seems to have stepped right off the subway; Horace McMahon, who makes the squad commander solidly true to life; Joseph Wiseman, playing a degenerate fourth offender with chilling accuracy; and Michael Strong, as Wiseman's slack-jawed crony...