Word: ploy
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That this decision was not moti-shown by the informal offer made to a representative of SDS by a close associate of McNamara's: McNamara might meet privately with your organization if you will drop the issue of a public debate. SDS did not fall for this ploy. Barney Frank, the Kennedy Institute's liaison with undergraduate affairs, offered to arrange the personal presentation of the petition to Secretary McNamara as he arrived at Eliot House on Sunday. The SDS representatives were then told that Frank would take the petitions himself. That he did, in spite of our best efforts...
...brilliant ploy. The trial had progressed beyond the point where new testimony could conveniently be introduced; yet no court could ignore this surprise witness. Accepting the prosecution's motion, the judge ordered a new trial. This, of course, would need months to prepare-if it ever took place. Rumors spread that Charles de Gaulle might be less than happy to have the trial commence again, since Dlimi might name the anonymous high-ranking French officials who, according to trial witnesses, gave the go-ahead for French police and security agents to cooperate in catching Ben Barka for the Moroccans...
...Morrison in a Louisiana Democratic primary illustrated voter discontent with the President, whom Morrison had backed on most issues. The vote was heaviest against the incumbent in the two areas of the district where racial disturbances had occurred. Rarick also skillfully used rhetoric railing against "professional politicians," a ploy most effective when voters seem to be most frustrated...
...planned to disclose all along, Johnson announced the appointment of Attorney General Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach, 44, to succeed George W. Ball, 56, who had long been impatient to resign as Dean Rusk's No. 2 man and resume private law practice. Beaming at the success of his ploy, the President went on to inform startled newsmen that he had filled two other major vacancies in the State Department. For the No. 3 job, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Johnson had selected Eugene Victor Debs Rostow, 53, former dean of the Yale Law School, who is the elder brother...
...appellate court stayed his sentence for two months to allow him to hone a new appeal claiming he was not personally responsible for trying to mail his products from such "titillating" addresses as Intercourse, Pa. As Ginzburg now tells it, the mailing company he hired devised that ploy without his knowledge...