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...years of successful football behind him when he was "integrated"-transferred to a formerly all-white high school and made assistant coach on the "B" team. White officials explain that there are simply not enough comparable jobs to go around, and invariably find the whites better qualified. One favorite ploy is to assign a relocated black to teach a subject in which he has no certification. Then he is closely observed and fired for incompetence...
...command-module pilot, has very little in common with the man he replaced beyond the fact that both are bachelors. Ken Mattingly is serious and studious. Swigert is a not-so-secret swinger with the reputation of having a girl in every (air) port. Swigert's favorite ploy, his friends say, is to invite girls to his apartment to see what he claims are his moon rocks. For all his bachelor antics, however, Swigert is a highly skilled former Air Force flyer and civilian test pilot with degrees in mechanical engineering, aerospace science and business administration...
...Empty-Box Ploy. Whatever the cause, the executive who is slipping often betrays himself by telltale signs. He will work long hours, nag his staff about petty details, or replace competent subordinates with yes men. Refusal to take a vacation is an almost certain symptom. Failures are terrified that their shortcomings will be discovered in their absence. Sometimes the failures resort to elaborate -and costly-ruses to cover their traces. In one TV-set manufacturing company, for example, a vice president could not meet his production goals and shipped empty boxes to distributors. When they complained, he insisted...
...great seriousness or detail in the depiction of Rolfe's neuroses, but simply a more clear-cut emphasis on them. Rolfe no doubt took himself seriously. But the answer is not to join him in self-glorification any more then to laugh his "sickness" away (the fairy-tale ploy). Hadrian VII could have used a bit more malevolence without slipping into the Swopian mire...
...employ the Agnew hook," said Arizona's Morris Udall, co-captain of the Democrats' congressional basketball team. "This ploy," he explained, involves "intimidating scowls and feigned throws at the press table, followed by a wild charge to the south end of the court while shouting slogans, epithets and five-syllable words. While the ball occasionally ends up in my mouth, 65% of the fans who have watched this maneuver approve of it." Another Udall tactic was "the Haynsworth-Carswell shuffle-sending in a series of second and third stringers, one after another, until one of them scores." Neither...