Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leaguers made a deal with aging and fat Fazlul Huq. Result: Huq, last year dismissed as Chief Minister of East Pakistan for "treasonable activities," now became the Minister of the Interior. The man who emerged as Premier in the deal was Chaudhri Mohammed Ali, Pakistan's financial wizard...
MIKOYAN: A shrewd, sharp Armenian and a wizard at trade and barter. Intellect: brilliant. Force of character: limited...
...Teller, now professor of physics at the University of California; Dr. Hans Bethe, first to calculate systematically all thermonuclear reactions; Dr. Theodore von Kármán, who developed Jato, later served as chief scientific adviser to the Air Force; Massachusetts Institute of Technology's electricity wizard...
...Trevor Gardner, 39, brilliant, onetime boy wizard of the West Coast engineering and electronics industry (e.g., rockets) was nominated Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for the second time in six months. The first nomination of Gardner, a close friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer. was blocked in the Senate by Senator Bourke Hickenlooper. After studying Gardner's case, Hickenlooper announced last week that he would not again oppose the nomination...
...another series of bonds. Rubinstein simply paid off on the defaulted series, which rose automatically in value. "I had the bonds," he explained later, "and I had the money. I just paid myself off." For this kind of bald larceny, Rubinstein got a newspaper reputation as a "boy wizard of international finance...