Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gauge of his political position at home, especially in the wool-hat back country, where Herman Talmadge is strongest. He had been away too long. Georgia political leaders thought that his moderate position on segregation was an important reason for his most recent loss of political strength. Said Democratic Strategist Roy V. Harris: "If he had just made one speech giving the Supreme Court hell, nobody could have beat...
Once, consultants were little more than efficiency experts with a fancier title. Today the management consultant tries to be a hired superman: a co-strategist, talent scout, policy adviser, hatchet man (to chop down executive deadwood), naysayer and new-business finder. In the postwar boom the consultant business (2,000 firms grossing more than $400 million annually) has grown faster than ever, as industrialists, facing the largest opportunities (and pitfalls) in history, have looked for experienced guides for mergers and for diversification...
Despite the unfamiliar and unusually flat Brown course, the Crimson strategist is confident his runners can repeat these showings, and then some, against two teams--M.I.T. and Brown--which have lost two meets apiece, and a third--Tufts--which opens its season this afternoon...
This was as much a surprise to McCurdy as the opposition for the varsity coach--in his fourth year as grand strategist--had figured on using his veteran runners to break up the one-two punch of Horn and Bill Lepkowski, UMass' second best runner, who eventually placed sixth...
...Lockhart Harnam Noble, 75, head of the British Naval Delegation to Washington (1942-44), commander in chief of the Western Approaches in the fight against Nazi U-boats (1941-42), commander in chief of the China Station (1938-40); of coronary thrombosis; in London. Regarded as a top naval strategist, destroyer-trained Sir Percy organized the British defenses that helped keep World War II's North Atlantic convoy routes open...