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Finley has good reason to hope that the announcement was only a ploy. In his first full season, Blue last year fashioned a stunning 24-8 record, posted 301 strikeouts and won both the Cy Young Award as the outstanding pitcher in the American League and the league's Most Valuable Player Award. He provided Finley with an extraordinary return on his salary of $14,750, and set turnstiles spinning round the league. Well aware of his impact, Blue and his attorney agent, Robert Gerst, asked for $92,500 this year. Finley refused to go above...
...Hartke (below) courting the readers with love letters in 72-point boldface lead type? Was this just some good-ol'-down-on-the-farm-Hoosier-friendly-neighbor gesture or was Hartke actually trying to woo votes with this, shall we say, rather hokey amorous ploy? Did he actually think he had any chance of winning...
...Muskie's press room, said that no one in the Muskie office had any knowledge of the letters; at the same time no one on Muskie's staff would either confirm nor deny that they had leaked the story. The leak exemplified the most vile kind of political ploy: a rumor for which no one will take credit channeled to the press. The word gets out, it gets into print, and yet no one-in this case in the Muskie Headquarters-is held accountable if it turns...
...argued for "a much larger and more intense military and pacification effort" instead of dismissing it as beyond Washington's capability. In fact, a number of government officials who are familiar with Huntington's work have suggested privately that his accolade of the urbanization program was probably a tactical ploy designed to interest "hard-headed" Washington officials in his substantive policy recommendation for a political accord in the South...
139th Session. Last month, Porter shocked the North Vietnamese by announcing a boycott of the negotiations-a ploy that had always been their specialty. When he returned to the Majestic last week, Porter jousted with the Communists for four straight hours. He warned them against trying any "military adventures" in Indochina, adding that the result could only be "the loss of many more lives." The Communist delegates accused him of not "responding positively" to their proposals, but Porter rasped back that Communists made a practice of turning "proposals into ultimatums, and you are in no position to issue ultimatums...