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...Thant, furthermore, a much shrewder fellow than anyone ever expected, has met other and less academic objections to his Congo mission by clothing it in highly ambiguous language. He has insisted throughout that U.N. troops are there only to guarantee Katanga's isolation, to freeze a murderously explosive military situation (in which Mr. Tshombe has spoken of poisoned arrows and "scorched earth") so that negotiations to subsume Katanga may continue. His casques bleus, he has innocently announced, are not at all intended to force any particular political objectives...
...football's pros are shrewder by scheduling only 14 games, how is it that Paul Hornung tops the Green Bay Packers' player payroll with a mere $25,000, while baseball's 162-game season enables the San Francisco Giants to pay Willie Mays $90,000 a year. If the cost of a National Football League franchise is $550,000 today, the growth of the pro grid is decades behind major league baseball, which recorded a $2,800,000 sale of the New York Yankees...
...look for sign, shake head, shake again, check first, big sigh, wind up, finally pitch. Crack! Foul ball-and the fans could be halfway to Chicago by jet. Even a good thing palls when the games go on day after day for six months. Football's pros are shrewder: they perform just once a week, 14 times a season, and it is often standing room only. Last year the National Football League filled 76% of the seats in its stadiums (v. big-league baseball's 34%), and this year the N.F.L. sold half its seats before the first...
...explain the violence that human beings do to one another. Nagging questions persist: Why did so many acquiesce in Hitler's evil? Why did so many Jews go quietly to their deaths when they had a good chance of resisting? Fiction, rather than scholarship, has supplied the shrewder answers. Perhaps the profoundest explanation to date comes from the pen of a Jewish writer driven from Germany in 1936 and now living in Holland. Hans Keilson's novel subtly and eloquently probes the ambivalent relation of victim with aggressor...
...models-and the dearth of sales-has put new zest into that great American game: the battle of wits between car seller and buyer. Once the customer's main interest was in car quality and dealer reliability, and he bargained halfheartedly. Today's customer is sharper, shrewder, better informed. He knows that dealers are overstocked with cars and anxious to sell. Detroit has egged him on with the great registration battle between Ford and Chevrolet; in the last few years dealers have been forced to cut profits drastically just to move their cars. The first question a buyer...