Word: statecraft
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Jack-of-All-Trades. Bulganin's administrative talents soon caught Stalin's eye. He was-,and still is-an energetic jack-of-all-problems, in business, bureaucracy or statecraft. Knowing little about banking, he became head of the Gosbank, Soviet equivalent of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Neither chemist nor metallurgist, (serving alongside Molotov) he whipped Russian production of explosives and gun metals to record heights...
...think the possibility that Mom-oriented statecraft may wreck our land is more ludicrous than tragic . . . But the situation gets less funny every...
Philosophy & Statecraft. The traditional picture of the philosopher as a bearded oldster is all wrong, too, says Dr. Lehman. The most notable contributions to ethics, logic, economics, political science and esthetics have been made by men in their 30s (metaphysicians run five years older). Spinoza began his major work when he was 23 and finished it by 43; Schopenhauer published his masterpiece (The World as Will and Idea) at 31. But a few of the best-known philosophers were laggards: Kant spent the years from 46 to 57 on The Critique of Pure Reason...
...Foster Dulles had spent a year working his way through the barriers-the fears and natural prejudices of the free nations, the threats and legalisms thrown up by the Russians to block a Japanese Peace Treaty. He had succeeded with the kind of patient persistence and resourcefulness that U.S. statecraft had all but forgotten. As president of the conference, Secretary of State Dean Acheson personified U.S. determination to get on with the job. His urbane evenhandedness and parliamentary precision provided all nations with a right to be heard, provided none with a right to disrupt...
...twice married and twice divorced, Griffis is a tall, shrewd and amiable investment banker who made enough of a fortune, before getting into statecraft, to spend his winters aboard his yacht off Florida. At one time he controlled Madison Square Garden and ran Paramount Pictures, was also one of the Democratic Party's most generous campaign contributors...