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Moving into this taut situation with the touch of a blustering gamesman, Khrushchev put himself in a position to boast that only his timely threats had saved Syria from the terrible Turks. For most Arabs know that the seedy Syrian army constitutes no match for Turkey's 500,000 formidable soldiers. To the aroused Arabs, it seemed all too likely that the Turks were eager to take on the job of policing the Middle East for the Western powers...
...scholarly process which he cannot readily attain through lectures and text-books. It can require him to articu-late his ideas and arrange his knowledge with a coherence which is seldom demanded by the one way techniques of papers and exams. Most of all, it can defeat the gamesman's glib use of words and facts to obscure his lack of real insight or awareness, and thereby prod him into a modicum of honest, and rigorous thinking. There does not appear to be any educational substitute for re-examination of one's assertions in a critical light. Such self-testing...
...Under style. As a full-time tennis writer for the Melbourne Herald, Hopman based his opening ploy on the U.S. warmup performances. His particular target: Vic Seixas, who, he said, had "foot-faulted a number of times" without being taken to task. U.S. Captain Shields showed himself no mean Gamesman in return by promptly retorting: "When Harry resorts to such tactics as this, I think it indicates only that we've got him worried...
...every Gamesman knows, the final score is the proof of the gambit. With Sedgman displaying the same whirlwind form that won him the U.S. title, he took just 58 minutes to give Savitt as sound a thrashing as the Wimbledon champion has taken in years. The score: 8-6, 6-0, 6-4. The result, on the eve of the U.S.-Sweden zone finals, made good gamesman Hopman a likely candidate to go down in Gamesman history with such famed experts as Frith-Morteroy (master of the art of Countering the Crock), Edward Grice (specialist in the Secondary Hamper...
...Gamesman: 'I was fortunate enough to meet your daughter on Sunday.' " Layman: 'Yes, indeed - I know. She told me.' " Gamesman: 'What wonderful hair - a real Titian.'" Layman: 'Oh - no - that can't have been my daughter - that was Ethel Baird.' " Gamesman: 'Really. But I thought I was talking to your - ' " Layman: 'You were, but that was earlier on.'" Gamesman: 'Was it - but what was the colour of your daughter's hair?" Layman: 'Well-a sort of brown-' Gamesman: "Of course. Of course...