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They often seem to dominate congressional hearings as they lean forward to supply legislators with shrewd questions that befuddle a committee opponent, or dazzling answers that sew up an argument. Their rising influence and expertise are among the reasons for the resurgent role of the U.S. Congress...
Dallas is a trader's town, a place for shrewd operators from the time of its founding in 1840, on a likely river crossing, by a canny settler of the Texas Republic's northern Indian frontier. Roads and rails soon branched away from the site, and Dallas began to do big business in buying, selling, managing and shipping the goods of the Southwest. In succession came buffalo hides, cotton, wheat and oil, banks to make loans for a percentage of the profits and insurance companies to underwrite them. It is a city of wealth wrought with sharp pencils and calculating...
...attempt to sell Vida Blue, Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers for $3.5 million in cash before they departed in the free-agent market. Kuhn voided the deal, claiming it was not "in the best interests of baseball." Despite all that, Finley was a topflight baseball man, whose shrewd trades and sharp eye for nascent superstars gave Oakland five straight divisional championships, three American League pennants and three World Series championships...
Technical excellence and a shrewd appreciation of its customers' needs helped the International Business Machines Corp. capture most of the world computer market. But critics charge that IBM's policy of controlling all aspects of operations, from manufacturing to maintenance, has unfairly helped to sustain its dominance. That policy got IBM into trouble with the U.S. Justice Department, which in 1969 charged the company with monopolistic practices in a suit that is now in the trial stage. Last week officials in another country-India-discovered just how dear IBM holds its 100% philosophy. Rather than allow a minority...
DIED. René Goscinny, 51, creator of Astérix, France's most popular comic strip; of a heart attack; in Paris. Astérix, a diminutive Gaul, was a spokesman for all the shrewd little guys who fearlessly take on bigger adversaries-not for ideological reasons but in order to be able to eat, drink and be merry. Three weeks before he died, Goscinny realized his dream of being syndicated...