Word: acumen
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...Artist Koerner pictured Rockefeller with cigarette in hand? If so, either TIME'S text lies or Artist Koerner displays a lack of artistic acumen...
...Constance Tuckerman convincing and sad. Dorothy Sands, playing a wealthy old woman who is aware of how wrong interfering in other people's lives can be, is sprightly without belying her age. It's unfortunate that she wins some laughs just because old people aren't credited with any acumen. (It's cute when that little old lady says something perceptive by accident...
...gained by the 27½% depletion allowance), much of it now comes from electronics, real estate, insurance or shipping. And for the new Texan, Texas is no longer big enough. Ranging across the nation like eager bird dogs, Texas businessmen are supplying capital, entrepreneurial vigor and acumen in nearly every area of the U.S. economy...
...economy was strong, having righted itself from recession. President Kennedy had used the powers of his office and his own political acumen to push along his legislative programs: he was doing better than any President since the early Franklin Roosevelt in achieving success on Capitol Hill. He had received bullish reports from Vice President Lyndon Johnson, just back from Southeast Asia, on prospects in that beleaguered area...
Quite a few members of this community can, and will bring themselves "to regret the departure of Assistant Director Stephen Aaron '57" and the theatre at Harvard will be considerably poorer for the loss of a man of Mr. Aaron's acumen and enthusiasm. William Alfred John M. Bullitt Dean Gitter Cedric H. Whitman John Ratte Elliott Perkine John Conway Daniel Seltzer Robert Chapman Walter J. Kaiser...