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...DeLury is a union spokesman in the truest sense, then he is also the union leader extraordinaire. "My problems are like a big family. I spend most of my time settling personality clashes and personal problems," he said. But he also plays a cagey game with city hall. Take a recent dispute over route changes to handle peak periods better: "If the city wants route changes, then we'll give them to it. But we want something in return; our production increased 10 per cent last year and 9 per cent the year before that. We are the only municipal...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Steering a Tight Ship in a Sinking City | 3/25/1972 | See Source »

Eddie Kasko's half-brother Charlie Glotzbach of Georgetown, Ind. drove a super-charged Dodge to a second place finish and $14,200 in the Daytona 500. Glotzbach was just edged out in Saturday's race by cagey veteran A.J. Foyt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAYTONA 500 | 2/22/1972 | See Source »

...Caucasian Chalk Circle to the theme of little people whipped about in a historical convulsion, in this case France's punitive struggle with Algeria. Brecht succeeded because he had a certain sympathy for the last-ditch valor of his little people even when he portrayed them as cagey sneaks. Genet fails because he regards all people as maggots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Genet's War | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...they assumed, FBI agents would be in church. When these arrangements failed, the dons were left to communicate with one another from outdoor phone booths?a far cry from the grand council meetings in luxury hotels. The vacuum in leadership and logistical planning opened the way for the sole cagey survivor of the old days?Carlo Gambino, 68, head of the largest family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Mafia: Back to the Bad Old Days? | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...neighborly neutrality in a war fought by guerrillas and insurgents is a thankless one at best. That neither Cambodia nor Laos has yet stepped over the brink is partially due to the wits of Sihanouk and Souvanna. Perhaps the cagey Sihanouk has best summarized the plight of Southeast Asian neutralists. "I'll keep maneuvering as long as I have cards in my hand, first a little to the left and then a little to the right," he said. "And when I have no more cards to play, I'll stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Royal Jugglers of Southeast Asia | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

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