Word: trusters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spins & Raves. Despite his position as resident brain-truster for the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Goethe was still a deeply disordered man. He had recovered from a near nervous breakdown, apparently brought on by an early wallow in romantic agonizing in which he alternately "melted and raved" like his hero Werther. The routine of official duties had steadied him. He had studied science and accepted the soothing ministrations (thought to be platonic) of an older woman named Charlotte von Stein. But she had encouraged him to write only fanciful verse that had nothing to do with life or the natural...
...State Department, which was supposed to be in overall command, was plagued by a dizzying succession of Latin American policymakers. First in charge was Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Mann, who stayed on after the Eisenhower Administration left. Next came New Deal Brain-Truster Adolph Berle, who resigned soon after the disastrous Cuban invasion. Then it was Robert Woodward, a career diplomat who lasted eight months before going to Spain as U.S. ambassador...
...fragile-looking but tough-minded beauty of 38, Madame Nhu is the wife of President Ngo Dinh Diem's brother and closest brain-truster, serves as her bachelor brother-in-law's official First Lady. Around Madame Nhu and her husband swirls much of the opposition to Diem's regime. Critics blame their considerable influence on Diem for the excesses of his government, argue that he would become more tractable and his administration more liberal if he got rid of them...
...pose as a farm expert. I expressed a sincere desire to learn." A chief author of the Kennedy Administration program was in fact ex-Professor Willard Cochrane, Freeman's director of agricultural economics, former member of the University of Minnesota faculty, and a farm brain-truster under the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations...
After acting as the New Frontier's savvy liaison man with the outgoing Administration, Washington Attorney Clark Clifford was hired last week by the General Electric Co. Duty of the onetime top Truman brain-truster: advising the company on the multi-million-dollar damage claims resulting from February's antitrust convictions...