Word: acumen
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...overwhelming victory of Goldwaterites at last month's Young Republican Convention in Omaha has led to a widespread misconception that the YR National Federation was the scene of ideological struggles. A brief talk with any state delegate of reasonable political acumen, however, will reveal that the basic issue was an intra-party factionalism that had little to do with ideology...
...Soviet hands, the non-news of the Summit should in itself be a measure of reassurance. Johnson was no more the plains-Texan wheeler-dealer than was Kosygin a shoe-banging Khrushchev. Both men demonstrated that they are able to survey, if not to solve, the overriding issues with acumen and restraint...
...member of the Harvard Corporation since 1952, Lamont put his financial acumen, his administrative knowhow his enormous circle of friends, and his unflagging energy at the service of the University. Many Faculty members and administrators were accustomed to receiving letters from him containing a newspaper clipping, a digest of a conversation between Lamont and one of his prominent friends, or, most often, a question...
...fellow student with Winthrop Rockefeller at Loomis School in Connecticut in the late '20s, I and other members of the student body observed Win's acumen in political organization and administration. As a result, the Loomis Political Club, of which Win was first elected secretary-treasurer and later president, was most successful during his student days...
...more shocking than the Series outcome was last week's prediction by CRIMSON president Robert J. Samuelson '67 that the Orioles would win in four straight games. Samuelson, not known for his sports acumen, said, "I will not be modest about this achievement: I think it absolutely extraordinary...