Word: tactfulness
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...Dreamer. Both Cal's regents and its faculty are high on Heyns. To the regents, he represents a fine blend of diplomatic tact and no-nonsense firmness. "He is strong but open-minded in dealing with young people, though not so wild a dreamer that he will go off into orbit with them," says Mrs. Norman ("Buff") Chandler. "He's a man who wants to be working in the tomorrow of education," adds Financier Norton Simon, "and tomorrow is already here at Berkeley." Faculty members are impressed by Heyns's demonstrated emphasis on teaching at Michigan, consider...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation has displayed elephantine tact in its most recent "conversation" with a Harvard student. Aggrey Awori, President of the East African Students,' Organization in the Americas, was questioned at length by an FBI agent several weeks ago. The apparent reasons for the interrogation were Awori's letter to the CRIMSON criticizing United States policy in the Congo, an invitation extended by Awori to several Russian U.N. diplomats to speak before African students in Cambridge, and a speech he made to the Students for a Democratic Society...
...teachers recommended clapping and cries of "Königin Elizabeth," with curtsying as "optional." Just in case a relative of the Kaisers might induce any other anachronisms, the association nervously suggested that "the word 'Heil' as an expression of joy should be avoided for reasons of tact...
...trusted lieutenant of majority leader Johnson, he plumbed shifting sentiments on bills, relayed the party line, and prodded the recalcitrant. He knew where to find all the legislative snags and how to use craft and tact to steer around them. As an intermediary in the legislative process, he felt the pressures of various outside lobbyists upon him. Baker knew how to manipulate these interests to achieve the desired ends. Because of this instinct, Baker became an indispensable and trusted instrument of party policy. The subtle and not so subtle use of influence was a game Baker played with the finesse...
...justify the bridge, the Coop has simply insisted that it is vitally necessary, and added that without a bridge the whole undertaking--with all its accompanying tax benefits to the City--might have to be reconsidered. At best, this stance shows a failure to understand the importance of tact in public relations...