Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promised not to run an anti-U.S. campaign, Diefenbaker found subtle ways to bring up U.S. meddling in Canadian affairs. In Winnipeg, Man., he appeared beneath a banner urging "Vote Canadian, Vote Conservative," a slogan thought up by a local Esso dealer and described by a Tory strategist "as the only way of being anti-American without letting your slip show...
...equal veto. For all the argument it provokes, however, the question of control is largely academic; the fingers would be unanimous. "Do you really believe that Europe will want to shoot this thing off without being sure that the major U.S. force would be used?" asked a U.S. strategist. "Considering it as a second strike force, the semantics of voting becomes irrelevant...
Yale's strength lies in its top men. At number one, national semi-finalists Vic Niederhoffer and Ralph Howe will clash in a "thinking man's" game. Howe, a strategist like his Harvard opponent hasn't lost an intercollegiate match in two years; both players have recovered from their losses at Detroit and will be up for this match. Niederhoffer easily beat Jim Zug in a recent league contest, however, and should come through with a win for Harvard...
...Robert McNamara remains unimpressed; to him, Skybolt seems worth neither the cost nor the effort. Groans an Air Force strategist: ''They threw our Skybolt into a cost-effectiveness computer. and it came up 'tilt.' " If Skybolt's advocates insist on comparing their bird with Minuteman and Polaris, claim its critics, they are on shaky ground. Skybolt is more elusive than a land missile only when it is airborne. But the cost of keeping a B-52 fleet aloft is immense -and a SAC base is a much softer target than a hardened silo. A nuclear...
...without hope of victory, the varsity swim team takes on what may be the strongest team in Army history today at West Point. Statistics of past performances indicate that the Cadets should win by about ten points, but statistics ignore the existence of Crimson coach and master strategist, Bill Brooks...