Word: masterminding
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...Daddy" Unruh is the elephantine (265 lbs.) mastermind of California's Democratic Party. Speaker of the state assembly, he is proud of the way he has manipulated lobbyists into contributing to the party. "Money," he says, "is the mother's milk of politics." Unruh directed Democratic Governor Pat Brown's winning campaign against Richard Nixon this year, is considered Jack Kennedy's favor ite California politician. He has also been a four-letter man-although not in the way that Yale usually thinks...
Miss Williston said that her office sees "no point in trying to mastermind" the assignment of freshman roommates too much, since the "very nature of this college and of these students means that the 318 girls in the Class of 1966 are already diversified." She added that Radcliffe girls are likely to be people who can adjust to a range of personalities, and who will therefore be able to get along with any roommate...
...convicts were Frank Lee Morris, 35, and brothers John Anglin. 32, and Clarence Anglin, 31. With an IQ of 133,* ;Morris was undoubtedly the trio's mastermind-and to escape from Alcatraz he had need for real, if perverted, intelligence. The island got its name-Isla de los Alcatraces, meaning Isle of the Pelicans - from the 18th century Spaniards, and only pelicans have ever been free to come and go easily. At one time Alcatraz held military prisoners; later it became a domicile for such eminent civilians as Al Capone and "Machine Gun" Kelly. Many have tried to escape...
...Leavis labeled Snow as not only "portentously ignorant," but also as a non-novelist who "can't be said to know what a novel is." And worse, Snow is a middlebrow promoter of science who "has become for a vast public on both sides of the Atlantic a mastermind and a sage...
...Mastermind of the takeover attempt is smooth-talking I.C.I. Chairman Stanley Paul Chambers, 57, rated by some as Britain's ablest executive. Defeat would spell a sorry setback for ambitious Chambers, but he obviously counts on winning...