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...proper way out: the girl with a shrewd eye toward a heavy social season ahead will buy a single pair of quality gloves, hang the expense, and put them into the pocket of her favorite coat. From there, they can be hauled out when necessary. And to there, they can be swiftly returned, immediately after an entrance or exit. With a little bit of luck, they need never be worn...
...heads 700 ministers and 460 churches, and his lay membership has grown from 143,000 to 270,000 in twelve years. In church circles, he is admired as a first-rate fund raiser who has built 24 new churches in the past three years. He is also considered a shrewd judge of personnel, with a knack for appointing the right man to the right pulpit-and for trading off weaklings to unsuspecting brother bishops. Kennedy seldom takes work home from the office, spends much of his evenings reading contemporary novels, which he reviews for the Methodist monthly Together...
...Salvador Allende, 53, the shrewd and persuasive leader of the far-left Popular Action Front (FRAP). In 1958 Allende came within 29,000 votes of beating Jorge Alessandri, Chile's dour and conservative incumbent President, who cannot succeed himself. The anti-Communist opposition is stronger this time. But so is Allende. In the past six years, Chile has made little progress. The U.S.-owned mines in Chile produce 11% of the world's copper, but catastrophic 1960 earthquakes and rocketing inflation have eaten up much of the mineral wealth. Since 1958 the price of a loaf of bread...
When they applied to a rural justice of the peace he gave them a shrewd, cynical look. "How old are you?" he asked...
...Pont is using a shrewd strategy in marketing its material. To establish reliability and chic, it has deliberately had the material put into higher-priced shoes-usually $20 and up. Once Corfam's prestige is established, Du Pont will gradually lower its price to embrace ever wider markets, moving next year into the $17-$20 shoe range. By next spring it also expects to enter the profitable children's field, where Du Pont already has a thriving competitor in tiny Arnav Industries of New Jersey, which is making a roughly similar material of its own for children...