Word: knacks
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...constant strains during Romney's life have been his firm Mormon convictions and his knack for selling. As a Mormon missionary in Britain for two years, as an aluminum salesman in Los Angeles, as an Alcoa lobbyist in Washington during the New Deal, as chief spokesman for the Automobile Manufacturers Association during World War II, he was an intense, determined seller...
...Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Lands Division, Clark was an efficient administrator with a knack for economy: for three straight years, he ran the division for $300,000 less than its $3,500,000 budget. When Nicholas Katzenbach moved over to the State Department last October, Clark became Acting Attorney General. It had taken Johnson 148 days to publicly remove the "Acting" from Katzenbach's title in 1965-and Ramsey was kept waiting precisely the same number of days. The President broke the news with that touch of coyness that has become almost a trademark. Having dropped...
...Berkeley, students have a knack for getting what they want. And what they clearly want is Ernest Becker. Calling him a "stimulating" teacher, a "fantastic speaker," and a man who "makes you go out of his class thinking," several hundred of his students last week staged a two-hour "teach in" after one of his lectures. They also organized a march on the chancellor's office, presented a petition signed by 2,000 students demanding that Becker be retained. When the anthropology department faculty insisted that they had neither the necessary funds nor the staff allotment to keep Becker...
...game marked the final appearance of Pete Waldinger, a scrappy wing who possessed a goal-getting knack rare on this year's Crimson: Charlie Scammon, an exciting defenseman who was possibly Harvard's most improved player this year: and Dennis McCullough, the little-used captain who at least got the glory of an assist in his final outing. Goalie Bill Fitzsimmons, the fourth three-year veteran, made his last appearance a win over Dartmouth before the pressures of a thesis and a research paper prevented him from riding the long season out to its conclusion...
...accent." She has made dozens of engaging campaign appearances for Ed, helped harvest the Italian vote for him. Remigia and their daughters, Remi, 17, and Edwina, 14, will stay in Newton for the time being while the Senator commutes there weekends. Although she loves meeting people, Remigia has a knack for mangling their last names (Dirksen becomes "Dirdis" or "Kirkenson"). Recently she confided her problem to a dinner partner, Vice President Humphrey, who astutely advised her: "Just call them 'Honey' or 'Sweetie.' " Vote White. Until he was 30 years old, Ed Brooke never even voted. Then in 1950, several friends...