Word: acumen
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...Married Asset. The result was a merger of the Phoenix's administrative acumen and the APA's artistic excellence. And for the APA, the new security has spread a tone of smooth confidence. "Five years of percolating is better than instant," says one actress. Having done 30 productions (predominantly classical) since its start, the APA is now a well-integrated, well-trained troupe, one-third of whom have been in the company all five years. They are beginning to reflect Rabb's maxim that a rep company should be made up not of chameleon-like actors...
...Gaulle's vanity and the reverence he inspires in his subordinates arise from a common perception: The General is an extraordinary man, and an extraordinarily able President. Almost single-handedly he has kept France among the great powers. His political acumen, his sureness of direction, and the legend of his leadership in World War II are the cords that bind the restless elements of the Fifth Republic into a coordinated, going enterprise. Gaullists would claim that a realistic essay of his value to France more than justifies his self-righteousness. Like the late Frank Lloyd Wright, De Gaulle sees...
...Extra Million. Moursund's business acumen is held in awe, particularly by those who recall such feats as his 1958 sale of 631,000 acres on three ranches owned by the West-Pyle Cattle Co. for almost $3,000,000-a cool $1,000,000 more than the owners had expected. He did it by rounding up the biggest cattle buyers in the Southwest, carefully sorting the cattle by breed, size and quality, insisting on sealed bids for each...
Attacks from Within. Liberal Alberto Lleras Camargo, who became Colombia's first coalition President in 1958, was an able administrator who held the frente together by sheer statesmanship. Conservative Valencia, 55, a courtly, scholarly lawyer, lacks his predecessor's élan and political acumen. When his budget came before Congress last October, his own party attacked it as inflationary. But Valencia, the son of Colombia's most revered poet and a lover of poetry himself, has little patience for anything so prosaic as economics. Famed for his gallantry to the ladies and a romantic passion for hunting...
...solve the fiscal crisis: a modest sales tax, a modified income tax, and an increase in governmental fees. Most attention in the press has centered on the sales tax, a proposal which may lose Volpe many votes. Advocacy of this tax says much for the ex-Governor's economic acumen and political courage. Though the sales tax falls more heavily on lower-income tax groups, it is generally recognized as the most effective means of raising tax revenues and has been advocated by many Democrats, Peabody and Mayor Collins among them. By proposing increased state income taxes, Volpe has sought...