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...tenth year, is primarily a social occasion. It has become an annual two-week ritual for movie buffs to gather in the lobbies of Lincoln Center, trade gossip, champion favorite films and, inevitably, castigate the witlessness of the selection committee, whose choices, nevertheless, were both diverse enough and shrewd enough to guarantee sellout houses. Among the more notable...
Continental Grain Co. of Manhattan. Continental is headed by French-born Michel Fribourg, 59, a shrewd, aggressive executive, whose family founded the firm in Belgium more than 150 years ago. Cargill was started a little over a century ago by W.W. Cargill, a Wisconsin farm lad. The company's present chairman, Irwin E. Kelm, has the distinction of being the first chief from outside the Cargill and MacMillan related families, who still hold 90% of the stock...
Whether there was any illegal or unethical conduct is yet to be determined. There is general agreement, however, that the Russians made a shrewd deal, demonstrating intimate knowledge of the capitalistic U.S. market. They got themselves out of a serious grain shortage at bargain prices. The U.S., in return, found a new market for its grain, which will help decrease its balance of payments deficit. Most wheat farmers should benefit in the long run from the higher prices. One byproduct of the wheat and corn sales to the Russians, however, is that they will feed inflation in the U.S., particularly...
Comparisons between the Republican and Democratic Conventions are inevitable because the differences between the two crystallize November's election choice. It is unfair to pan the Republicans for the absolute control and staging which distinguished their gathering, on for their blatant appeals to dissident Democrats. Shrewd politics win elections, and the two sure precedents for the Republicans' tactics are found in Democratic campaigns. Franklin Roosevelt exercised broad control over the 1936 convention which renominated him, and Lyndon Johnson did likewise in 1964. The Republicans of 1972 departed from these Democratic forerunners, though, because they were not confronted with immediate crises...
...shirt, is required at one point to shoot himself in the foot with his police special, an ancient bit of business that he contrives to make fresh. The hero of the film, if there is one, is Burt Reynolds, who displays an enviable sense of comic timing and a shrewd sense of self-parody. One scene in which Reynolds and his partner (Jack Weston) attempt a cross-examination while dressed in nuns' habits is so funny that it be longs in another movie...