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...after a frenetic year as a U.S. prosecutor in Washington, Amsterdam joined the Penn law faculty and started moonlighting as a top tactician for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund. In case after case he has astounded judges with his ability to remember hundreds of citations going back to the birth of the Republic. At one hearing, when the judge could not find one of Amsterdam's citations, an unruffled Amsterdam suggested: "Your Honor, your book must be misbound." It was. In New Orleans last winter, he flipped through the apparently hopeless appeal of a Mississippi Negro accused of possessing...
That was the shrewdest blow of them all and the one to which Charles de Gaulle, the master tactician, reacted the fastest. French farmers and business men, someone may have told him, consider that his crockery smashing on economic cooperation is hurting their pocketbooks. Shedding his shell of ice, the general hobnobbed for an hour in Paris with Britain's Tory Leader Ted Heath, discussed possible British admission to the Common Market, which De Gaulle himself prevented in 1963. Then he met with his Cabinet and had the word put out that "a certain number of obstacles . . . are diminishing...
Squalid Aftermath. The authors give high marks to Henry Wade as a trial tactician, even though they argue that he introduced improper evidence. By contrast, they note that Belli failed even to try to talk the jury out of the death penalty...
...were embarrassing to Castro, the curious case of Che Guevara was doubly so. For that had to do with Cuba's independence and leadership. In the early days of the revolution, Castro and Guevara were virtually inseparable, one the compulsive man of action, the other the cool, brainy tactician. Some wags called the Argentine Guevara a "Gau-cho Marx," but they said it with a sour smile. Che was in the original rebel band in the Sierra Maestra mountains in 1956, the man who mapped Castro's guerrilla tactics against Dictator Fulgencio Batista and became world-famous...
WESTERN COLLEGE FOR WOMEN Constance Baker Motley, LL.D., associate counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. and president of the Borough of Manhattan. The chief courtroom tactician of the entire civil rights movement...