Word: tactician
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...were the West Germans who, along with many other Europeans, were convinced that Konrad Adenauer had been the star of the show. Even the pro-Socialist Frankfurter Rundschau, ordinarily hostile to Adenauer's Christian Democrats, hailed the old Chancellor as "the rock of Bonn ... a brilliant tactician who can credit himself with having given the conference the twist that allowed all participants to go home satisfied...
...Communist in reverse himself. For 15 years he was a leading party organizer in Reading. But in 1953, he reports, "I began to feel a deep unrest." Billy Graham came to England, and Potter decided that such a proficient crowd mover might have something to teach a Communist tactician. His first meeting left him cold, but later, when he attended the baptism of a friend whom Graham had converted, Potter was deeply moved. At a Communist mass meeting in Reading Market Square, Potter turned Red faces redder with the announcement that he had turned Christian and left the party...
...longer overbearing, Lodge has grown on the job. The gallery-conscious dramatics and freewheeling Capitol Hill political habits which he brought with him when he first came to the U.N. have largely disappeared, and ever since the beginning of the Mideast crisis he has shown himself an able tactician, dispassionate and generally diplomatic. Last week he succeeded in keeping off the agenda, for the seventh year in a row, the question of U.N. membership for Red China...
...caused a mild furore in 1929 because Socialist Shaw put in a good word, not to say several magnificent speeches, for monarchy. Shaw's English King Magnus is far more public-spirited, high-minded and civilized than the Labor Prime Minister and, as it turns out, a shrewder tactician. Heckled for such a political about-face, Shaw insisted-in one of those prefaces of his which are more like second times at bat-that King and Prime Minister not only are not winner and loser, but are not even basic antagonists. "The conflict," Shaw asserts, "is not really between...
...Senator Robert Taft. He had seen General Eisenhower in Europe during the war. "I was impressed by Ike because he asked questions," says Hoegh. "He wanted to find out what was on people's minds. And he had an open mind of his own." Hoegh was a key tactician in a group of younger Republicans who swung a majority of Iowa's delegates to Eisenhower on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention...