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...Richard Nixon's Washington, John Connally is a throwback to the Lyndonesque. He chews the last bit of meat off his pork chops with both elbows on the table and sometimes speaks in the earthy parables of L.B.J.'s Pedernales folklore. Observing the shrewd, assertive style that Connally brought to Washington as Secretary of the Treasury, Alabama's Congressman George Andrews breathed a sigh of déjà vu: "You look very much like an arm twister. In fact, somebody said you look almost like his twin brother." Says Connally with an innocent smile...
...wrong. If you see in Carmen nothing but a nymphomaniac who meets a tenor, seduces him, gets tired of him, then meets a bullfighter-it's a bore." Instead, he went back to the original Mérimée novel to help create Carmen as a shrewd, tough outcast-a gypsy in an age when gypsies were treated very much like blacks in an intolerant white society...
...blood pressure. But his short-lived resignation was also designed to deal with a governmental malaise. While the Premier was away, a bitter struggle flared between his two closest advisers: his brother Lieut. Colonel Lon Non, who commands a Cambodian army brigade, and Vice Premier Sisowath Sirik Matak, a shrewd administrator who is said to be "like a copilot...
...Shrewd Sense. After women gained the vote in 1920 Miss Luscomb became a charter member of the League of Women Voters. She cast her first presidential ballot in 1920 for Socialist Candidate Eugene Debs. Soon she was involved in the labor movement, inspecting the shops operated by the garment trade. Miss Luscomb's shrewd sense of revolutionary tactics-which are still being copied by her spiritual descendants- helped rectify dismal working conditions. "I got four women who were distinguished Bostonians to go to the factories with me. When the newspapers printed their report, believe me, the state officials came...
Breathtaking Expansion. During his eight years at CUNY, Bowker has indeed become an irreplaceable crisis manager and shrewd lobbyist for city and state funds. Disarmingly low-keyed and rumpled (he looks, say aides, "like an unmade bed"), he has charmed state legislators and plugged his office into New York politics by installing hot lines to both Mayor John Lindsay and Governor Nelson Rockefeller. As a result, he has engineered a breathtaking expansion of both CUNY's enrollment (now 195,000) and its commitment to solving urban problems. His major accomplishment came last fall when he launched CUNY...