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Nixon then turned to Melvin Laird, who is regarded as one of the shrewdest Republicans on Capitol Hill as well as one of the best-versed in public policy. For 14 of his 16 years in the House, he has been on the Appropriations Subcommittee, dealing with Defense, and has become an expert in the field. He knows the department's budget thoroughly, is acquainted with many military leaders, and has an intimate knowledge of Pentagon practices and politics. Laird was also an outspoken critic of McNamara on a number of is sues, berating him, as did other conservatives...
...Hegemony. From the dry Western wheatfields has come a potent Republican challenger, former Governor Henry Bellmon, 46, a well-to-do Billings rancher who acts like a hayseed but in fact is the shrewdest political operator in the state. Bellmon built a vi able G.O.P. in Democratic Oklahoma, overcame a 4-to-l registration gap, and carried the state for Richard Nixon in 1960 and himself in 1962. A Marine veteran of Iwo Jima who does not drink, smoke or swear, he delighted the backwoods by scorning a "monkey suit" at his inauguration. As Oklahoma's first G.O.P. Governor...
...year, under the tutelage of Coach George Case, who pilfered 61 himself the Washington Senators in 1943 they have already stolen eight in eight games. Acquired in an off-season trade with the National League's Los Angeles Dodgers, Catcher John Roseboro one of the game's shrewdest tacticians: after shutting out the Senators on four hits in the Twins' opening game of the season, Pitcher Chance allowed as how he had shaken off only one of Roseboro's signs. "That," he said, "was one of the hits they...
...products in the U.S. With other full-line companies like Allis-Chalmers and J. I. Case also in the running, the race for customers is keenly competitive. One reason, notes Deere Marketing Vice President E. W. Ukkelberg, is that the American farmer has al ways been "one of the shrewdest buyers in the country...
...know. The 1966 rate was $115 per column inch, so the gross value of the space that year was over $1,725,000. Nembutol is listed there, like the other brand names, and Abbott paid well for the privilege. In his book, Burack calls PDR "probably the shrewdest and most effective means by which the pharmaceutical corporations perpetuate their hold over doctors and patients...