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...getting was not a matter of protest vote alone. For in Clements, as ineffective a stump speaker as oratory-loving Kentucky ever produced, Chandler was up against one of the shrewdest organizers in all U.S. politics. Clements, said one Kentuckian, has "made a career out of reaching around incumbent organizations and making his own wheels do the better turning." As majority leader of the state senate in 1944, he organized legislators and other politicians in the Second Congressional District so effectively that when he announced for the House, the incumbent simply retired. As a Congressman, Clements laid the groundwork...
...call a general strike for March 1, the day Kekkonen becomes President. The President-elect's first move was to pick his defeated rival, Social Democrat Karl-August Fagerholm, to form the new government. Finns took this as fresh evidence that Kekkonen is his country's shrewdest politician. If the unions strike, they will be striking against a Socialist Premier...
...Deputies, the 75 Socialist votes controlled by Italy's fellow-traveling Stalin Prize winner Pietro Nenni have always been regarded as forbidden fruit, something to be enviously eyed but eventually rejected. The price always looked too high. Last week Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni, one of Italy's shrewdest politicians, embarrassed the Christian Democratic government of Antonio Segni by offering his votes free...
...Sooner the Better. Their shrewdest move was designed to force Adenauer to deal with the East German satellite in spite of his determination not to: they gave East Germany control of all civilian traffic and trade between West Germany and West Berlin, which must cross East German territory. "The sooner the politicians of Bonn and West Berlin realize that they cannot undermine the East German regime, the better it will be for the populace of West Berlin," said East Germany's Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht...
...injury will require surgery; Swaps will probably be out of racing until December. But Swaps's misfortunes did not dim Nashua's victory, which raised his earnings for Owner William Woodward Jr. to $882,565. Said triumphant Old Master Arcaro, who had ridden one of the shrewdest races of his 24 years in the saddle: "Nashua did everything that Mr. Fitz and I planned...