Word: masterminds
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...ankle playing touch football. But she has become part of the solid front the Kennedys present to the world, even to the point of indulging in masterful oversimplification in defending father Joe against charges that he runs his children's careers. "You'd think he was a mastermind playing chess," says Jackie, "when actually he's a nice old gentleman we see at Thanksgiving and Christmas...
...began, ironically, when Republican Treasury Secretary George Humphrey made his famous observation last January that continued big budgets would lead to a hair-curling depression. President Eisenhower helped it along by inviting Congress to try cutting his budget. Senate Leader Johnson, undisputed mastermind of the 85th, accepted the Republican invitation and turned it into a Democratic party...
Highballing down a well-marked highway last week, Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets committee stopped the caravan to take on some extra cargo, and headed on. Destination: the front door of James Riddle Hoffa, slick, front-running mastermind of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who hopes to take over the presidency from Dave Beck next month. The weighty new cargo, the committee hoped, would prove once and for all that Jimmy Hoffa hooked up with racketeers in what was eventually a successful attempt to seize power in the Teamster organization in New York...
...smoother thug, refined his old muscle technique to set up "paper locals" (no rights, few members), shook down businessmen with threats of "labor violence" and picketing. So powerful grew "Mr. Dee" that two months ago, when U.S. attorneys attempted to hale him before a trial jury as the mastermind behind the acid-blinding (TIME, April 16, 1956 et ante) of Labor Columnist Victor Riesel, two key underworld Government witnesses took added five-year sentences for contempt rather than sing against Dio on the witness stand, and Johnny Dio's trial had to be postponed...
...save the fabled carrier Enterprise from the scrap heap. Among the other World War II brass on hand: Admiral Richard L ("Close-In") Conolly, 65, a past master at firing his 16-inchers into the whites of their eyes on enemy-held beaches; Leatherneck General Gerald C. Thomas, 62. mastermind of the prime invasive 1st Marihe Division on Guadalcanal and in Korea...