Word: tacticians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...U.S.C., the nation's No. 1 college team, and it further strengthened McKay's bid for the title of No. 1 coach. Said Oregon Coach Len Casanova: "A good coach has got to be a good recruiter, a good on-field teacher and a good tactician, devising strategy and making adjustments under fire. I have seen a lot of coaches who were good in one or two of these categories, but not all three. John McKay...
...Tactician is the word for McKay. The Trojans had barely dried out last week when he began preparing for U.S.C.'s next opponent, Washington State. Armed with a battery of movie projectors, McKay and his eight assistants spent an entire day studying State game films, making elaborate diagrams of every player's move on every play. The data was then fed into a computer, which produced a printout of the team's reactions-and their weaknesses-in any given situation. McKay then spent the better part of his 80-hour work week devising the precise, detailed game...
...politician in West Germany's postwar history has risen so fast and made so few admirers in the process as Rainer Candidus Barzel. He is almost all a politician should be: intelligent, hardworking, cool under pressure, a first-rate tactician and gifted debater. Yet Barzel suffers from a serious image problem. In voter preference polls, he badly trails the warmer and more personable Brandt, and even rates below some members of his own party. His critics have pinned on him a wide assortment of unlovely epithets: "aalglatt" (slippery as an eel), "a well-rehearsed Pharisee," "spontaneous as a robot...
...Lutz's real ability is his strength," says Rosewall, the master tactician and most durable of the pros. "He can play even the most difficult shots with simple strength. And he's got age on his side." Relaxing in Cleveland last week in a blue and pink striped Pierre Cardin shirt, blue velveteen blazer and color-coordinated bellbottoms, Lutz attributed his sudden rise to a newfound confidence. "Tennis is 70 to 80 percent psychological," he said. "After you beat Rosewall or Laver once, you say to yourself, 'I can do it again...
LARRY O'BRIEN, 55, outgoing Democratic national chairman and now national campaign chairman in the McGovern campaign, master political tactician, architect of the Kennedy 1960 victory. O'Brien has never held elective office, but he made a good impression on the voters by his skillful handling of the Miami Beach convention, and he would serve as a bridge to the old-line party establishment...