Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation violently divided. The Koryo dynasty was challenged by the House of Yi, and civil war was in the air. At this dangerous juncture Jong Mong-ju, a minister loyal to the old dynasty, paid a courtesy call on King Taejo, the father of Yi Bang-won, the leading strategist of the opposition. His host's son, in salutation, took up a harp and sang this sinister and seditious ditty...
...offers start pouring in on a presidential assistant from the moment he begins looking restless. Larry O'Brien, who was openly eager to quit as Lyndon Johnson's Capitol Hill strategist before he was appointed Postmaster General, had any number of offers from private business at salaries up to $100,000 a year. Though U.S. publishers and big industrial companies have always looked kindly on job applicants who can produce references from the President, no graduating class has ever cashed in as handsomely as the New Frontiers' oldtimers...
...their powder dry and their gunsights blackened Roughly speaking, ten wars are in progress throughout the world this week. They range from petty conflicts in which the strategic weapon is a poisoned arrow to major air raids in which jet B-52s bomb jungle hideaways. As a leading French strategist on the Quai d'Orsay puts it: "There is no longer such a thing as war and peace, just different levels of confrontation...
General Delivery. With this year's congressional blitz all but completed, Johnson's challenge next year will be to preserve all he can of his Democratic congressional majority. O'Brien will have a critical part in that effort, too, both as campaign strategist and patronage dispenser, with 35,000 appointive postmasterships and 33,000 rural letter-carrier jobs at his disposal...
Reserve Primacy. In the rising chorus of voices for reform?joined last week by the IMF and Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.?the strongest and most influential belongs to the chief financial strategist of the monetary world's most powerful member: Henry Hamill Fowler, 57, the 58th Secretary...