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...Douglas-Home's shrewdest appointments, to the crucial job of party chairman, was Labor Minister John Hare, 52, a hardworking, true-blue Tory. As for Sir Alec's defeated rival for the prime ministership, Rab Butler, he had always wanted to be Foreign Secretary (Harold Macmillan denied him the job), and Rab made his debut last week at a Western European Union conference at The Hague with complete professional aplomb...
After the Supreme Court refused to review his case, Genovese began to spend his money wisely. He hired Edward Bennett Williams, one of the nation's shrewdest trial lawyers. Williams promptly petitioned for a new trial. During their original appearance in court, he argued, the defense had not had access to the prosecution's notes on the pretrial testimony of the disgruntled dope peddler. In 1957, Williams pointed out, the Supreme Court had ruled in Jencks v. U.S. that a defendant in a criminal proceeding is entitled to see reports of pretrial testimony...
...early months of the campaign, Hughes's shrewdest advisors had urged him to do precisely what Tocsin had failed to do--to draw the connections between the arms race and other domestic and diplomatic issues; the campaign was to be distinguished by the intellectual cogency of Hughes's arguments, rather than by the glamour and vacuity which characterize American campaigns--not least of all Teddy's. Hughes had taken their advice and did not change his tack during the Cuban crisis; as he pointed out in an article in Commentary several months after the elections to do anything but criticize...
...where he had gone to try to settle a dispute with local truckers, Teamsters' Boss Jimmy Hoffa munched a lettuce salad and talked about U.S. labor's troubles. Whatever Bobby Kennedy or anyone else may think about Hoffa's moral character, he possesses one of the shrewdest minds, and is one of the best organizers, in U.S. unionism today. Said Hoffa: "Everybody's running scared, that's what's wrong. The trouble is we're in an age of labor leaders. They're looking toward retirement and they want to be labor...
...word must be used with caution. Though widely disliked, India's Marwaris are a tough and able people who have spread all over India from their ancestral home in the Marwar region of Rajasthan State, becoming a powerful and growing force in commerce and finance. India's shrewdest small businessmen for many years, they have now moved inexorably into big business. Marwaris control 60% of Calcutta's commerce and industry, 45% of Bombay's. They hold half the capital in the Indian jute industry, and 90% of the capital of companies trading on the Calcutta stock...