Word: gamesmanship
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Such political gamesmanship has won many a hot battle in Congress during the seven Kennedy months. The Administration has suffered defeats: its medical care for the aged bill was shelved without ever coming up for vote; its farm program was gutted; its school aid bill, now vastly diluted, is still in grave doubt. Its crucial foreign aid bill got relatively unscathed through the Senate, was murdered in the House-despite O'Brien's valiant fight for sorely needed long-term borrowing authority-and some time this week will come compromised out of a Senate-House conference...
...fourth straight victory in the famed Diamond Sculls at Britain's Henley Royal Regatta, the 6-ft. 4½-in., 196-lb. Mackenzie was skittering his one-man shell across the water like a nervous water bug. But. as always, he was relying almost as much on gamesmanship as on power to preserve his reputation as the world's best sculler...
Matched against Poland's Teodor Kocerka in last week's Diamond Sculls, Mackenzie shot to his customary early lead, then settled down to his customary gamesmanship. At the finish. Mackenzie let Kocerka pull close before spurting hard to leave the Pole completely exhausted. He won by half a length and became the first man in the 20th century to take the Diamond Sculls four straight times. "It was a nice little dabble." said debonair Sculler Mackenzie. "But I was just playing...
...Grim Gamesmanship. U.S. intelligence officers believe that the Russians have long known of U-2 surveillance flights. But the U2, flying at least as high as 80,000 ft., was beyond the reach of their antiaircraft weapons. To have accused the U.S. of overflights would have been to admit an inability to defend the country against U.S. planes. Whether Khrushchev indeed got himself an accurate new antiaircraft rocket, or whether-as first U.S. stories had it-Pilot Powers came dangerously low with trouble in his oxygen system, the U.S., at week's end, did not know. In any event...
...grim gamesmanship of the cold war, Khrushchev scored the U-2 missions as omens of aggression. But as long as U.S. forces need to seek out the sources of possible attack, such flights will continue. Until improved reconnaissance satellites swing into orbit, bold pilots will continue their crossing of a hostile continent. The oxygen mask wall continue to put a new face on the secret agent of tradition, marking his release from the hole-and-corner, back-alley deals of history...