Word: opportunists
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...Forlorn Servicemen. Katz is a remarkable mixture of opportunist and traditionalist. Born in Odessa of Russian-Jewish parents, he came to the U.S. as an infant, at the age of 14 was given a tiny printing press by his father. He used it to print letterheads and menus, and to turn out a magazine called Boy's Ideal, which eventually gained a circulation of 2,500 at 250 per annual subscription. He took his earnings and went to the University of Pittsburgh, but dropped out during...
...been a good week for Romney, either. Earlier, he futilely tried to explain away his recent description of Percy as an "opportunist" (what he meant, said Romney, was that Percy "had a good sense of timing"). Next, Barry Goldwater did nothing to help him by declaring that the Governor just might make an acceptable candidate-"if he comes back to the Republican Party." And the morning after his disappointing dinner performance, Romney even overslept until the slugabed hour-for him-of 6:30, was so rattled that he arrived at a G.O.P. breakfast in mismatched pants and coat...
...fears that the Sunnite majority-a more orthodox sect-might rebel if he became too publicly outspoken. Actually, he need not say much: the statements of his peers are sufficiently intemperate to embrace his views. Says Premier Zayyen in tones ominously Pekingese: "We are crushing all parasite and opportunist elements that stand between the Arab revolution and the Arab masses...
Whatever else he was, Pancho Villa was a born leader. In the revolution of 1910, the black-tempered peasant led the first uprising against President Porfirio Díaz, later joined that other hard-riding bandido, Emiliano Zapata, against the government of the opportunist Venustiano Carranza. Along the way, Villa's cavalry of bearded, wild-eyed "Dorados" (Golden Ones) shot up and looted villages, left the bodies of priests strung on barbed wire; they later defied the U.S. by killing 19 in a raid on a New Mexico border town, eluding a punitive force led by General John...
...position as a stepping-stone to the governorship. The plight of DFL's intellectual aristocracy is even worse though, for if the Democrats win, leadership of what once was a potent arm of liberalism will fall to a crochety maverick they tried to repudiate and an opportunist they throoughly mistrust