Word: hiding
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There is nothing very mysterious about Dirksen's methods as leader. Sitting across the aisle from him when he took over was Democrat Lyndon Johnson, one of the most talented leaders in Senate history. Dirksen watched Johnson and learned from him. But where Johnson often scraped off some hide when he was trying to smooth Senate fur, Dirksen's techniques are gentler. Says he: "The longer one is identified with public life, especially at the national level, the more one is persuaded, as an ancient philosopher said, that politics is the art of the possible." In dealing with...
Despite initial Cuban attempts to hide it. and official U.S. denials that it was going on, there was no mistaking the Russian buildup when it began six weeks ago. Refugees fleeing Castro's miserable island brought the first reports; U.S. intelligence agents and members of the Western diplomatic corps filled out the story. Ships-some Russian, some chartered from such NATO nations as Britain, West Germany and Norway-were pouring into Cuba carrying heavy loads of Russian military equipment and Russian soldiers...
Single sun worshippers are put through a long probation period before becoming fully unfledged members, thus ensuring that they do not join merely to play hide and peek. Despite the obstacles, recruiting is easy. Several years ago, a U.S. Air Force pilot crash-landed near a nudist beach, took one look around as he climbed out of his plane, and immediately started peeling...
Kassem's efforts to put down the revolt have been a dismal failure. He distrusts his army because one-third of its troops are of Kurdish stock, never gives raiding parties more than two days' supplies and ammunition lest they go over to the rebels. Fighting a hide-and-seek guerrilla war, the Kurds have made fools of Kassem's generals, currently have 2½ divisions -half of Kassem's army-tied up in the frustrating campaign...
...Right Rev. James Albert Pike, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California, is an eminent churchman who does not try to hide his doubts about such Christian doctrines as the Virgin Birth and the Trinity. A year and a half ago, Pike's unorthodoxy led a group of High Church ministers from Georgia to demand that the House of Bishops try him for heresy (they didn't). Now Dissenter Pike is faced with a schism of dissenters right in his own diocese...