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...assorted characters in the sordid Watergate cast, Charles Colson was widely viewed in Washington as the wiliest, the slickest operator and thus the least likely to be charged with a crime. So quick to deny any personal wrongdoing, so voluble in defending the innocence of the President, Colson often seemed to be protesting too much. Federal prosecutors apparently thought so too. TIME has learned that the former White House special counsel not only may be among the first former officials to be indicted by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's grand jury but that he is under investigation...
Essentially, The Teachings and A Separate Reality were about the strategy by which Don Juan, one of the wiliest and most subtle men ever to live in print, used hallucinogens to reveal his descriptions of reality to Castaneda and so turn him into a man of knowledge himself. As a result, the books were greeted as landmarks by the counterculture. Indeed they are-but they are not "drug literature...
...Vietnamese refer to Ellsworth Bunker as the "blue-eyed sorcerer" or "the icebox." In their view, the American ambassador is shrewd, cool and manipulative, a match for the wiliest Vietnamese politician. He seems, in a word, inscrutable-so much so that a great many Vietnamese believe that Bunker, acting on Richard Nixon's behalf, eased Big Minh and Nguyen Cao Ky out of the presidential race. After all these years, they still do not understand the Yankee gentleman from Yale...
...power, carefully contained but ready for instant application. His close-cropped skull and impassive features give him the forbidding countenance of a Japanese war lord. His steely mind and stinging tongue deepen the impression of a political samurai. Though he is in fact one of the nation's wiliest politicians, in private life he is a puckish, convivial figure...
...election victory, the parties to the left of defeated Candidate Juan Bosch have dissipated their strength by intramural squabbling. Balaguer has denied the far left a leader by preventing the return of rebels who were shipped abroad after the civil war, and by appointing one of the wiliest, Hector Aristy Pereira, representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council in Paris...